A selection of poems are archived on my fictionaut page here.
A radio interview on KPFK The Poets Cafe with Lois P. Jones is here.
A radio interview on Poetiscpape/rare Bird radio with Rich Ferguson is Here.
Other poems published online can be sampled here.

Eva at a safe distance 

Eva always sits at a safe distance, three seats back,
hands under the table and shoulders pushed forward
like a schoolgirl whose mind is elsewhere.
 
When prompted, she speaks without breath, the odd
verb conjugation out of kilter, but otherwise voluble –
spurred by my pseudo nods of interest.
 
I feel guilty about the latter, curtaining off my mind
from her harmless rambling, fumbling my way through
the remaining hour of our class with questions I had
probably asked a few weeks prior.
 
Eva sits like a newscaster, reading off the teleprompter
immediately to my left; doesn’t miss a word, holds
the same tempo, and be it a lottery win or a car bomb and
its ensuing carnage, her delivery is consistent.                     .
 
To her I must seem vacant, like one those stern Soviet
border guards she flirted with in her youth; a face like a
weather forecast announcing six days of rain.


 
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