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Disclaimer:  If you have an ear for poetry, this announcement might cause you suffering and dismay.

I have put up a new cycle of my poems in the sidebar.  Here they are:

The Cicada

The Latest American Dream

The Puzzled Flowers of Monument Creek

Whispers to the River

The sound of Cicada has always seemed to me primeval — older even than the gods.

The Latest American Dream is a satire on the plans of the World Trade Organization to privatize all the world’s water resources.

The puzzled flowers of Monument Creek in this poem are the beautiful women that come to the Creek each year to watch a charity event.  The event involves launching into the Creek a thousand or so rubber duckies — the rubber ducky that floats past the finish line first wins it’s owner a prize.

Whispers to the River was written during a very challenging time in my life.  Many years later, I dedicated the poem to my friend Alyssa, who seemed to be going through her own period of challenge.