Coffee We met for coffee. I had No intention of hitting on her. I was married and her husband was doing time for some kind of telemarket- ing fraud. Besides, she has… rumor has it… f—ed most of the boys in the Buddha Garden poetry reading group. She hosted this group and was now droning Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford
“by yourself, never left alone”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Richard Modiano
Poem for Danny Baker The world of real life, the raw urgency of the moment— the taste of black coffee, of charred red meat, the recoil of the Glock in your hand, the poem that forms in your brain— waits for us beneath history, its mysteries passed down through generations in the currency of momentsContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Richard Modiano”