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