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There is a place that is deeply special to me. A place intimately entwined with the most important relationship in my life. I'll keep it anonymous out of of some sense of propriety towards that which I hold most dear. But on the walls of this place framed, is a poem from a newspaper by a local author that appears to be long out of print. Simply posting here to help keep some record of his words that still ring true over a hundred years later. I can only find reference to a two volume collection that this early Washington State resident, poet and newsman published as the "Songs of the Sea." Some digging shows the author Charley L. Gant was known as the "Songbird of the San Juan Archipelago", which I cant help finding delightful. Bio:  https://www.anacorteswa.gov/468/Charley-Gant Sand Songs The Vampire and the Poet By Charley L. Gant You grasp and greed for a million Strong, I want no wealth but sing my song. And live and love my fellowmen As though no gold had ev...

 If you believe 'they don't make music like they used to" it may be time to expand your horizons :)

 MUSIC OF QUALITY FROM 2024 Arts not dead - you'll never get to hear all of the beauty out there!

Grateful to share my poem Please Heal on the Weekends over at Harrow House Journal Issue 2. Give it a read on Page 52, and check out some incredibly vulnerable work while you are there. Harrow House Journal Issue 2 

 Pleased to announce my poem Sacred Surcharges is now available to read and purchase in Headstone Zine Volume 1 from Sserppress over at:  Headstone Zine Losing friends sucks. Writing about it helps. <3

Pleased to share that my poem titled Stick Shift Wagon to Heaven is included in this book. My first ever in print piece! Wild backstory on how this creative collection came to be. Give it a read! Stick Shift Wagon to Heaven (TV-63)

  Beyond pleased to share my three poems Dreams of Diogenes, A Palahniuk Type Enlightenment, and Townes Van Zandt at the Smith-Corona Saloon all together in a collection over at Trashlight Press: Anarchy: A Poetry Collection

Price of Progress Yes I drew an Ear Rat to submit this poem. 

  Honored to have a vulnerable piece titled Pre-solstice Lament featured in A Sufferer's Digest. Pre-solstice Lament

Thoughts on: Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing This isn't a well edited or carefully packaged literary review meant to give some concise synopsis of the book or cast a critical light on the author. I simply want to to share a free-form journal entry and few closing thoughts after finishing this book. Think of it as rough sawn timber - not dimensional lumber: My background connection to Helen and Scott Nearing include reading their works The Good Life and Continuing The Good Life - each of which read as much more matter-of-fact homesteading journals and manuals. I was amazed and pleasantly surprised by the sheer worldly-ness and diverging context of both Helen and Scott's lives before settling into their work together in Vermont and Maine. Their personal connections to turn of the century class struggle and class consciousness, esoteric religion and astrology had me hooked - if not fascinated and enraptured. The literary, philosophical and religious influence and...