Poems

Poems

 Think in the Morning Poems Poem by Think in the Morning: A BeePoem by Think in the Morning: Analytic GeometryPoem by Think in the Morning: Basket CasePoem by Think in the Morning: Between the DaysPoem by Think in the Morning: Blake’s SongsPoem by Think in the...
Hugo

Hugo

This morning I noticed my dragon alebrije, Hugo, named after a friend who worked at Lucy’s Cucu Cabana in Puerto Vallarta for several years. The shop is gone and so is Hugo but the dragon lives in my house as a protector of great memories that might otherwise escape...
Excuse Me For Not Dying

Excuse Me For Not Dying

 Mistah Kurtz—he dead (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness) The remark “excuse me for not dying”, which Leonard Cohen attributes to his Zen teacher Kyozan Joshu Sasaki Roshi, is one of those deceptively simple Zen statements that opens up the whole question of life,...
The Anti-Jazz Of Epic Fury

The Anti-Jazz Of Epic Fury

 Referring to the character Horacio Oliveira in Julio Cortizar’s masterpiece novel Hopscotch, one reviewer wrote:He often asks himself how it is possible that humans as a genus, as a species, as an ensemble of civilizations, have arrived at the present day by...