Buddhism – The Dirty Rat

January 8, 2025

Pre-Order Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive

Pre-orders are now available for Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive, my third poetry collection due this June from Black Lawrence Press. These poems are memories, meditations and monologues. Stories of witness gathered during my time living in West Oakland around 2007 -- before and after. Oddities and encounters formed into poems while; standing at bus …

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December 20, 2013

The Two Oceans

One Year Ago: I stood on San Francisco's Ocean Beach, hours early to a wedding of a friend. I was alone and staring out into the expanse of the sea. It was between storms, the clouds rolled as if being poured into the sky. This was the first time I'd seen two different oceans within …

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