Movie Review

Black Swan -- Somebody, anybody, take a  deep breath--anybody...

NBA Predictions

Lakers -- if Paul  Espanol is up to it, again...

Obama

At least he gets to appoint Supreme Court judges -- but other than that? Never did care for him once he promised more troops for Afghanistan? Makes no sense. Surrounded by Goldman Sachs people doesn't do anybody any good except the Goldman Sachs people. I guess I wish him well, but when does the revolution begin and the Hawaiian vacation end?

Governor Brown

It begins again -- He'll be? Better than Arnold? How good can a governor be in a state of 35,000,000? Jerry Brown is one of the most interesting Americans. He'll try -- and with the new majority rules on the budget vote, well, maybe, he can succeed. Time to make California smaller? But who gets the water?

Pearly Dates

2011 -- Days of heaven...

Future Possibilities

The Sacramento Ballet -- Possibly -- World 's first presentation of Rebel Without A Cause -- Picture it -- I can, I have. People that never attended a ballet would rush to it. Those two words -- James Dean.

Jump Start

At the edge of -- The cliff -- Why does the question -- What if  -- Cause you -- To step -- Nearer the edge -- To see down -- To death -- Out without wings -- To quiet a nerve -- If I go down -- Can I return...

He Man

I must be a beast -- I prefer to -- Feed -- Fornicate -- And sleep...

Sangre Ah

The bullrings of -- Bonita Costa Rica -- Even the bulls -- Speak of -- Fiesta...

Johnny

I carry poems -- In my pocket -- Like some country -- Doctor...

Work

Discipline's goal -- Strike -- While the iron -- Is cold..

Sidewalls Of New York

Hopscotch -- Qualifies as -- Cave art...

Window Pain

Edward Hopper -- Every public bus -- After darkness...

Blackyard

It looked like there was -- A Drive-In -- On the horizon -- The sunset all silver -- And promising...

Science Building

What is it about -- Pork pie hats -- Like I only know -- Two -- American cats...

Las Puertas

"The End" begins with -- Flamenco -- The three banderillas -- And one torero...

Planet Raves

The nearby fountain -- Sounded like -- Applause -- While I listened to -- Bob Dylan and the Band -- Perform...

Crowning Achievement

She's a  thorn -- In my side -- With no Androcles -- No lion..

Beach Alums

The Jersey Shore -- Deserves a character called -- Bruce or Frank -- Hessian -- Or even -- George..

American-African

Zulu -- On a skateboard -- Ebony in a Greek Classic spear pose...

Moby Frickin' Dick

An octopus' ink -- And all the frickin' arms -- To help write -- The frickin' thing...

Cinder Tracks

A mile down for oil -- Also seems to ruin -- The high school oval...

Car 55

First on the scene -- James Dean -- Officer Ernest Tripke -- Stares down at the young mystery -- And now he too has joined history -- I wonder if it was at all different  -- From all his other first person tragedies...

In My Time -- Vignette

He wanted the buffalo to stand up. A better picture. He picked up a rock next to his front tire. He hit the huge buffalo on its nose. The buffalo sprang to its feet. It rushed forward and drove a dark horn through the visitor's chest. It tossed him in the air bullring style. The park rangers found him on the hood of his car, his camera on the ground beside his front tire.

Novel Excerpt --- Salud -- The Spanish Civil War Abrahm Lincoln Brigade

The train whistle was shrill enough to wake the dead. Braxton's rooster. The break of day. Everyone in Braxton heard it. Everyone at the mine heard it. Aaron Roberts and Tom Paine walked the line of men at the main gate to the mine. The day was winter without snow, gray and raw, sleet instead of rain. The train rolled in past the station. It rolled to a stop between the piles of timber, the engine black as coal, four green cars attached, steam like a dragon's breath. No one was there to greet it. Four men with wide brimmed hats, gold badges pinned to their dark coats, climbed down from the first green car." All right!" one of them yelled. "All right!" meant men climbing down from the cars. Men, all shapes and sizes, with little difference between their clothes, heavy coats and heavy trousers, only a few without some type of hat. One after the other, fifty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty.A ramp banged down from the fourth car. Five, six horses were led down the ramp. The horses carried on and complained until they were all together and saddled, their riders with with those wide brimmed hats and those gold badges. The first two men off the train formed the rest of them in two long lines. The men with the badges wore Colt revolvers under their heavy coats. "Bring em down!" was the order. Wooden rifle boxes were handed down off the cars metal steps. The boxes were pried open. Axe handles, brand new, bone white, dozens and dozens of them.

Styx & Stones

A dark dusty road -- Somewhere in Egypt -- Where 8 American tourists - Got what they -- Never expected --Pharoahs,Kings,Valleys of Princes -- For the after life a tour bus -- Side swipes something -- As stationary as the Sphinx is...

Southern Fried Chicken

Grant -- He brought the ants...

Novel Excerpt / Yellowstone-- My time as a ranger

Yellowstone --- Paul hadn't seen him for three weeks. He was like that. He'd be gone without a word, and then one evening he'd be back. Same time, same place on the beach. ---This was his time, each evening -- when the crowds were gone, the beach almost empty. --- From the lifeguard stand Paul got him in the binoculars. The focus gave him a tall, thin man -- in his what? Paul guessed at it -- 60's, early 70's? He never did say did he? with a short smile. And I never did ask, with another short smile. --- The man in the binoculars was chestnut brown from the sun, his hair the bright white of Caribbean beach sand. The binoculars couldn't get in that close to see the dark eyes bright with life, bright with interest. White eyebrows made his eyes clearer, brighter.

Novel Excerpt / Going For The Green--Olympic kayaker does protest

Going For The Green --- They left Vermont. Acid rain was killing the maple syrup industry. The maple syrup industry supported the high school. People were packing up, moving out. Teachers were being let go.  ---Let's go." --- "Where,dad?"--- "My uncle Chris can help me out in California. Sacramento." --- "You're serious?" --- "Sure. Why not? Warm and sunny, right? You can train year round." --- A kayak, one of his son Rick's kayaks,was leaning  against the porch railing. Some of Vermont was right off the porch; enough maples to keep their cabin out of reach, out of touch from the main road. --- "Bastards." His son Rick stood at the railing and looked into the church chapel shade the afternoon sun made between the fall-flavored leaves. ---"You got that right,son." Tom Ryan studied his son. Six foot of him, strong as a running back, clean as an All American, healthy, lucky to have his mother's blond hair, fortunate enough to have his father's Charley Russell,range hand face. ---"You want to go out there just to do it." Rick didn't turn to look at his father.

Novel Excerpt / The Blues--From my time as a Long Island cop

The Blues -- Whack! Solid golf shot. You may have your back turned, or your head down, but that thick, complete whack sound  lets you know what a good one it was. Bobby Sills had his head down. He was reading a Sherlock Holmes story -- "The Speckled Band."  The good thickness of the iron shot lifted his head from the page. Bobby's orange and blue Nassau County police patrol car was parked under the cover of the thick, tall, dew-wet oaks gathered behind the tee for the par three of the Woodside Country Club. The car was backed up the gravel cart path a few yards so it would be off the narrow road that twisted through the compact golf course.

Novel Excerpt / Jimmy -- Peace pipe in a Northern Ireland

Jimmy -- As high up as he was in the tree he could see far out across the empty fields sectioned off by the stone walls. The nearest field had what looked to Jimmy be a great black crow perched on top of it. Could there be a bird so large? he asked himself. --- The bird seemed to lift a black wing. Jimmy leaned out from his branch. The wing moved  again. That's not a wing, that's an arm. I'm sure of it . The black wing moved again. It, it's calling to me.

Novel Excerpt / Bottom Of The Ninth -- Radio announcer goes Network

Bottom Of The Ninth -- "Well folks, you just missed a beautiful rendition of the national anthem by our four hundred year old organist, Helen Toomey. She always makes it sound like some dying skate rink in Iowa. Had the binoculars fixed on the Squire dugout. As usual, four or five of them pretended that they knew the words and tried to mouth them. Must know they're on the game of the TV week." ---"Go to commercial,Mike."

The King's Speech

Who gives a flyin' you know what about the King's speech as the British have half the world under its manicured thumb -- but Colin Firth & Geoffery Rush -- My word...

True Grit

After Denzel did Malcolm, how could he possibly do Hurricane? But did he ever, as has Jeff Bridges in True Grit. Jeff Bridges as a drunken over the hill country singer in Crazy Heart to a drunken over the hill marshal in True Grit, never once making any part of the one the other...The young girl,Ms Steinfeld, and Matt Damon are fine enough,but when Jeff Bridges is there they don't exist, as if anyone could fill those parts -- just read the lines and stay out of Mr. Bridges way...

East Is East & West Is West

"No Man's Land" -- Lawrence is well slammed -- For landing on -- The desert sand...

Accidental Expressionism

A poem for -- Edith Metzger -- Blood dripping -- On canvas...

Most Remarkable Places

Jack Daniel,s Distillery,Lynchburg,TN- Marfa,TX --James Dean & Giant & more...Foreign -- Jerusalem,of course...

Foreign Affairs

Travels Overseas -- from Israel to Spain to Mexico to Vietnam to Scotland to Greece to Malta to France to England...

In The Red

Santa's lap -- As we do -- Once we've sat...

Celebs I've met

Patti Smith,John Densmore,Liberace,Harvey Keitel,Martin Landau,Marie Osmond,Garey Busey,Nevel Brand,Connie Stevens,and that's it?

Stuck

View blog -- Steve McQueen, run, run for your life...Compose

Greatest Movie Scene

William Holden, Stalag 17 -- When, from his bunk, he sees the reflection of the light bulb on its cord...

Movie Review

A Serious Man ( Coen Bros. ) -- John Cheever on Jewish rye...

Guerillas In The Mist

Jordan of Iberia -- A Lawrence at the bridge -- With Pilar & Maria...

Robert E. Lee Prewitt

Taps -- Music to soothe the -- Savage breast...

Meeting Revival

I think I shall always see -- An Elmer Gantry -- In all the bare winter branches -- Beseeching...

Hook,Line & Thinker

Dreams are streams -- I've baited my pole -- Dreams are streams -- My favorite hole -- Dreams are streams -- In goes my lure -- Dreams are streams -- Nothing is sure -- Dreams are streams -- Nary a bite -- Dreams are streams -- Going must suffice...

Twang

Pink arrows -- With like rubber tips -- Your cheek -- My lips...

Dead See

The bare winter branches -- Like a coral reef when it dies -- And the wet-fallen leaves -- Like fish at the -- Red tide...

Skin Game

The body in sport, ah, Walt -- I sing it divine -- It bends as a bow, like an arrow it flies -- First muscled as David, then goddess of Athens -- Run, run, run you ballet of action...

North Code

Longboats of Norsemen on lakes in my thoughts -- They come from a gifting from off the far shore -- A fair maiden's dress, and a blood licked sword -- These and a torch -- The dragon boat wore..

Rock Walls

The Doors -- The Band -- 10,000 years ago...

Easter

Spread my ashes in the wind -- Some to good and some to sin -- Let them travel and see -- Then join me in the place where I'll once again be...

White Water

Bikini, where mushroom clouds can devour a ship -- Ahab hunted Moby Dick...

Trail

A horse wanders off from a conquistador camp -- Custer, who would have thought...

Fiery Squad

The flamenco dancers -- Their shadows on the wall  -- Goya, when the French were in control...

History Lesson

The day of infamy -- was, as it turns out -- a day of strategy -- all the American aircraft carriers were at sea...

Botticelli

  Her-- Florida...

Oh,America

On maps without states, without borders -- The Great Lakes look like leaves -- Blown across North America...

Couple

They danced together  -- He was Jack and of the sea, and her name was Emily  -- He wore a rough shirt , and she a white train  -- The band played a waltz refrain  -- It looked like a tree held a flower  -- Like a meadow and a mountain  -- Each with a certain power...

The New Crocker Museum, Sacramento,Ca

The new building is awful  -- too airline terminal or drug co. hq. -- too Gwathmey -- cold, no color, no association to Sacto and the central valley -- but anything's better than the "dead house" of the old Crocker. Too many galleries had rugs  -- odd. A bit underwhelmed by the collected works. Familiar faces, which I guess is good -- but, a space full of familiar heavy hitters? One O'Keeffe...

no Pollock, no DeKoning -- but, again, that's not the intention. A few pieces, paint & sculpture, stood out, but for me that's all they did...Third floor galleries felt hardwood floor good -- but too much white cold throughout. I didn't much care for the south seas? collection on the first floor. All in all it's still odd that the State Capital of California is still running behind...Local,California heroes are good I guess -- will the MOMA  in SF block us out of some celebrity shows? Bravo to everyone involved in the new Crocker but there are times I do suffer? from being an ex-New Yorker...

Action

Those painted animals on those painted walls -- You know, when you move the torch, they take off..

Garden Party

She'd be 180 -- Happy "with their heads pointed towards eternity.." Emily...

Manhattan Island

Manhattan Island -- for 40th anniversary of "Hair" -- 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim , with the first showing of Wright's work -- new Yankee Stadium -- High Line Trail -- and more...

The West Is The Best/Get Here/And We'll Do The Rest

Jim Morrison -- Has finally -- From Florida -- Been pardoned -- Now to extradite him -- From Paris...

.Gone

Pencil & paper -- In the cafe -- I look around for -- Hemingway...

Red Shoes

La  Dorothea -- Flamenco -- The Oz of Sevilla...

The Morrison Hotel

Visiting What's Left Of America's finest Album -- Pico Blvd. In L.A.

I Say

Golf has taste of -- British War -- Gentlemen , gentlemen -- Never mind the score...

How My West Was One

America -- Stuck to my boot -- Like chewing gum and tobacco juice....

WAR STORIES

WAR STORIES --- DAILY REPORT ( MY VIETNAM ) -- SALUD ( MY TIME IN SPAIN WITH THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE )-- THE WAR AND BETWEEN THE STATES ( MY TRIP THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR ).

Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn -- Going there , again, after many years , for the first time -- James Donovan's Terrible Glory...Nonfiction...

Squat Thrusts

Ahh, as the seagulls fly -- From off the sand -- As Popeye...

Twang

Pink arrows with like rubber tips -- Your cheek , my lips...

April

April , and all the green grass of the outfields...

Fernando & Alexandra

I enter , it's a czarist egg -- Ornamented without , within a diamond on an emerald bed...

Jackson Pollock And The Storm King Art Gallery

Jackson Pollock's studio and home , Long Island -- and the outdoor sculpture gallery at Storm King, NY , West Point, NY... nonfiction...

Run For Your Life

What news would you carry -- What news the 26 -- To die from the bringing -- What news would you pick...

Old Men

Across the river Styx -- Who will row -- The great DiMaggio -- Of course, Hemingway's Santiago...

In My Time

My life vignettes -- Hemingway's In Our Time...

Priestess

Angela from Peru is part Inca -- Even the conquistador couldn't convert her...

The Natl. Indian Musem DC

The glory, the horror -- And Appomatox -- the glory from the horror...

Church

The road is snow, plowed tight -- Your boots like crushing glass -- Alone, a walk, again you need to ask -- The questions of Montana while the night is like a priest -- Patient, there to listen and just as such at least -- Guide you to the faith, steer you to the peaks...

Posted

Rejection is just a notice -- that you have the rest of your life to clean out your office...

Author, Author

Poet, that's the thing -- There is no choice, there's already spring...

Martha And The Glass House

With my compliments to Martha Stewart during her arrest -- She winds up buying Phil Johnson's 'Glass House in New Canaan , CT. -- and we, my character, and Martha meet . Her "people" actually called me about it. Just give it to her didn't get through to her...

Miracle Workers

In a paradise made to order -- Even los angeles have to carry water...

Ciudad

City of angels, Los Angeles en espanol -- They say it has no self, they say it has no soul -- But like the truth, you have to rub, you have to probe...

City Surf

Los Angeles -- The Malibu Pier for the Tiki bar -- the brand new Annenberg state & county park, Malibu -- the Marion Davies of William Randolph H. -- her mansion swimming pool now public & outdoors -- The Leo D movie about the dreams at the Arclight on Sunset ( junk ). Musso & Frank's on Hollywood near Vine ( classy ). The Chateau Marmont bar & hotel ( classier ). Barney's  Beanery off Melrose for Jim Morrison sat here... Out to Blythe for ancient petroglyphs on the ground -- Imperial Dunes, Salton Sea , across the desert and the mountains and in to San Diego...

High

First snow in the mountains -- I'm coming , the coming's announcement...

Letters

Letters from Stacy Keach thanking me for my compliments on his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway -- from Horton Foote about my story about a mother and her now fatherless son visiting the Vietnam Wall in DC -- from Horton Foote's Tender Mercies -- first time I realized that ,of course, young fathers left young children --I'm a Viet vet --Martina Navratalova, thanking me for the poem and the flowers I  brought for her at a tennis match in Oakland,Ca --Larry McMurtry giving me his OK to lean on an article he'd written about Goodnight, cattle & buffalo baron in the OK panhandle, for a short story of mine,Hunting Party -- "The" Tom Wolfe , after I took him on about his sour take on the Vietnam Wall -- Jack Finney, author of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers --Becky Fleming, Jack London's daughter..And James Donovan , author of A Terrible Glory -- Little Bighorn --for my praise, and his praise of my life....And from Anthony Bourdain, thanking me for The Doors CD I sent him...

Sunday At The French Laundry

Lunch at "the" French Laundry in Yountville, Ca. --- about $1,000 for three -- yummmmm...

Cloud Cover

Feels like rain --- If it did -- A lot less pain...

Gold Standard

Palm Trees-- And Pines -- Spanish for '49...

Shoulder Holster

Gays in the military -- How much ammunition can you carry...

Petal To The Mettle

Patti Smith -- A flower forms a -- raised fist ...

One Pillar Of Wisdom

Like Feisal  & Allenby  in the movie with Lawrence -- Tom Paine, with the founding fathers.. 

PEBBLE BEACH

JAVIER CRUZ , DAY MANAGER TOWER CAFE IN SACRAMENTO, CA , FROM BAREFOOT MEXICO, COMES ACROSS, PICKS FRUIT, BUSES TABLES, GETS LEGAL, BECOMES DAY MANAGER, TOWER CAFE , FINDS HIMSELF ON THE FIRST TEE AT PEBBLE BEACH COURTESY OF TOWER CAFE OWNER AS TRUE AMERICAN REWARD --I'M WITH HIM TO WRITE THE TELLING...

FOREVERGLADES

UPON THE RIVER OF GRASS -- IN BOATS OF CRYSTAL GLASS -- FRAGILE IS FROM FRAGILE CRAFT...

VAT Y CAN

POUR, POUR , POUR -- HIS CHAPEL, HIS CEILING , THE FLOOR..

GOING TO BUDDY & WILL

FROM LUBBOCK, TX, BUDDY HOLLY'S EYEGLASSES FROM THE CRASH -- TO CLOVIS NM WHERE BUDDY FIRST RECORDED -- ACROSS TO FT. WORTH & DALLAS FOR THE  KIMBLE MUSEUM FT. WORTH & THE BOOK DEPOSITORY IN DALLAS -- UP TO BARTLESVILLE,OK FOR WRIGHT'S PRICE TOWER ( THE TREE THAT ESCAPED THE FOREST ) THEN ON TO CLAREMORE, OK FOR WILL ROGERS & COMMERCE, OK FOR MICKEY MANTLE -- THEN ON TO ROHWER, ARKANSAS FOR MY FRIEND MASAKO'S INTERNMENT CAMP -- THEN ON TO FAIRMONT, IN FOR JAMES DEAN'S HOMETOWN...

BUDDIES

WHAT IF HE'D LIVED -- PERHAPS ROBBIE ROBERTSON -- AT THE WORST E HUMPERDINK...

Ten Tired Of

Ten Pages of things I'm , we're?  tired of...Prose

Take A Bough

Peace & Love -- Like gifts beneath the tree you hug...

Push Her Dan O

White billowing clouds like some Virgin volcano --Perhaps it works , tossing her into the inferno...

E Mail

If ever I would marry, I'd need of one named free  -- Her name dubbed no sweeter than the syrup from the bee -- Could it be Queen, Princess or Majesty -- No , it's merely Emily...

Marks In A Doorframe

As young I thought it would forever wait -- now I hear it work the latch on my gate -- never this one , always for others, eternity's slumber waits , but that is no bother -- there is no fear of the closing night's rest -- art of what is left , that is the test...

October

I left this October without a poem  -- so sick I didn't even know I was home..

September

September, and all the lifeguards have been collected...

Salud --nonfiction

Salud -- nonfiction. My time in Spain with the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade -- 1996...

Writing The Rails

A poetic journey across the country, New York to Sacramento, Ca, by rail...

Off The Handle

I'm sorry , but my reason wasn't from the first -- my emotions got the best of me at birth...

The Sword In The Parchment

Up from the lake, Excalibur my fingers dare take --It beckons me into gray water --  A test to join in the order -- If I can but reach for the sword -- safe upon Homer's waves the reward...

Daily Report

Daily Report -- A day in my Vietnam -- like most of my days in rice paddy Vietnam...

KNEW YORK

COAST TO COAST -- TO KNOW THE COUNTRY THE WAY THE SUN GOES ACROSS...

TOLL ROAD

A DEATH-LIKE 25 MILE MARCH IN THE POURING RAIN IN THE JUNGLE OUTSIDE MANILA  PRIOR TO VIETNAM...

Holy Water

Born again in the rivers baptism -- too long away from the GARDINER,the YELLOWSTONE, the MADISON...

Pencil Neck

I like talking to the workers about their work -- I feel apprentice, Whitman's clerk...

Carnival

After the cave painters first covered the walls -- they celebrated with The Doors...

Jade Dagger Of The Maya

Jade Dagger Of The Maya -- because the Maltese Falcon was already taken -- sacraficial daggers taken by an Aztec-like cult -- L.A. cop, L.A. tour guide, L.A. reporter, Spanish radio big shot -- events unfolding in beautiful
 L.A. -- novel in progress

To A Temple

To A Temple  -- meeting Jack London --fiction...

Paris In An American

Paris In An American -- my Paris...

Twin Ours

9/11? Shiloh - Antietam...

Ohle'

Her hands are hawks and doves -- her flamenco the sand and blood...

Red Ink

The pen is mightier than the sword -- but never tell that to a matador...

For Whom The Belle Tolls

The wind raises the dust in Amherst -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson knew John Brown of  Kansas...

A true story of Longwolf

A true story of  Longwolf -- Longwolf, a native American with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show dies in England --1889? A British housewife discovers him in 1998? A true story that I've turned into story.

Julia And Hadley

Julia  and Hadley --  something of a one act play -- Julia Child invites Hadley Richardson ( the first Mrs. Hemingway ) to dinner in her Paris Apt.  --she and her husband Paul want to hear of her Paris. What goes right --what goes wrong.

jim

Jim -- a one act play -- getting Jim Morrison out of his grave in Paris and reburied in his American west.

GOD'S WALLET

 FIRST THERE WERE SONS, WIND AND WATER -- THEN THERE WAS SAIL, BALLERINA DAUGHTER...

JAMES DEAN AND THE MATADOR

JAMES DEAN ADMIRED  MATADORS ---SO I TOOK JAMES DEAN TO THE BULLRING IN TIJUANA...

THIRTEEN PAGES OF AMERICA

THIRTEEN PAGES OF AMERICA --- JUST THAT --THIRTEEN  STANZAS, LINES, FOR THE THIRTEEN COLONIES...

GLOBE TEATRO

SHAKESPEARE REAL --- THE CAPE, THE BLOOD, THE HORN, THE STEEL...

THE OSCARS --FROM 06 THROUGH 10

OFF FOR OSCAR WEEKEND IN LOS ANGELES ---NONFICTION --FROM MARTIN LANDAU, GEORGE CLOONEY , GARY BUSEY...The Beverly Hills Hotel Ground 10...

AMERICAN MURAL

AMERICAN MURAL --- A LOVE LETTER FROM THE LEFT ---MY TRAVELS THROUGH MY AMERICA ---FROM BUDDY HOLLY TO THE TENNIS HALL OF FAME...

HARDBALL --- SHORT STORY COLLECTION

SHORT STORIES --- VARIOUS SUBJECTS FROM BASEBALL TO TREE REMOVAL...

NATIVE -- SHORT STORY COLLECTION

SHORT STORIES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH NATIVE AMERICANS, FROM CRAZY HORSE TO IRA HAYES...

SALUD

I CARRIED TWENTY ONE GUNS ACROSS TO SPAIN, THEN I FOUND THEIR GRAVES---TWENTY ONE GUNS ON THAT SPANISH PLAIN --- TWENTY ONE GUNS FOR THE ABE LINCOLN BRIGADE...

A Little Of The Bighorn

YOU GO THERE FOR CUSTER, AND DISCOVER THE RIVER--- UNLIKE HIM, TO IT YOU SURRENDER...

GREEN EYES

INTO THE POND WILLOWS WEEP, WILLOWS SO SAD --- I THINK THEIR TEARS MUST BE LILLY  PADS...

PEACE PIPE

LITTLE BOY OF BELFAST --- I'LL WHITTLE DOWN A POLICEMAN'S STAFF --- AND FROM THE CLUB A FLUTE TO FORM --- THAT WILL WHISTLE AND FINGER A HAMLIN SONG --- THEN OFF YOU GO, SERENADE THE CHILDREN AWAY --- FROM THE RUBBLE WHERE ENORMOUS RATS HAVE THEIR WAY....

YELLOWSTONE - A NOVEL

YELLOWSTONE - A  NOVEL - BASED ON MY TIME AS A PARK RANGER IN YELLOWSTONE NATL. PARK. PAUL BARNES, CENTRAL CHARACTER, HAS BEFRIENDED LARRY DARRELL OF THE NOVEL THE RAZOR'S EDGE. LARRY DIES IN YELLOWSTONE. PAUL BARNES AND HIS JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA TO YELLOWSTONE-- HIS LOVE, HIS YELLOWSTONE, THE RELIGIOUS CULT, THE MONKEY WRENCHING. AN  ORIGINAL -- THE FIRST NOVEL OF YELLOWSTONE.

Salud - a novel

Salud - a novel - Jordan Roberts, football hero of Pitt, sees his father killed in a West Virginia mine strike - it changes everything - he sets off on a journey that eventually takes him to Spain and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - the volunteers for the Spanish Republic in their fight against fascist Franco and his allies Hitler and Mussolini.

The Blues- A novel

The Blues - based on my time as a police officer 4th precinct Nassau County - a young cop and another young cop's wife finding themselves in the 60's - how do they get in and how do they get out. The cop life soaked  in  the 60's.

Going For The Green - A novel

Going For The Green - an Olympic kayaker decides to do a green protest in the manner of  John Carlos and Tommie Smith of the 68 Olympics.

jimmy - novel

jimmy is a novel in a place like Northern Ireland - a magic flute whittled from a police riot baton that brings peace when played -calling the children away from the opposite sides - a flute fashioned by a magic little man -given to blond beautiful jimmy - something like the occupying British army and its commander and his troops -caught between - what he suspects - what becomes of jimmy and the two communities.

Belle Jar

 She flew in her room -
Butterfly that kept its
Cocoon

Excerpts from novel

Cave Painter

Yellowstone

The leaf blower:
What drove the
Joads
Out of
California

Dakota and The Doors

New Yorker

Poems

James Dean

James Dean--
Into the 60's.
The Coolest.
"What if?"
In History.