MAP-LESS MONARCHS

Map-less monarchs make it to Michoacan,
The sparrow spurts to a limb and alights,
The whale wakes the water and so does the swan,
The falcon soars to astonishing heights,

And the Milky Way spins, be it ever so slowly,
As we carve out turf in the One-Turning,
This cosmos, so stunningly endlessly holy,
We shatter to shards, and stifle our yearning.

This world we have conjured, bereft of Being,
Sand in a void, of all Spirit bled,
Each speck a separate celibate thing,
A meaningless mote, essentially dead…

Yet the river remembers to flow and stay wet,
And the albatross folds her wings just right,
And the sun seems to know just where it should set,
And the clouds seem to know what to do with the light.

New Poems

• "Battle Hymn of the Republic, Indeed"
• "Ode to a Banana"
• "Moving on After 1/6"
• "Hug"
• "Map-less Monarchs"
• "I am Such a Rich Man"
• "Beatitude with Attitude"
• "The Cross and the Lynching Tree Rap"
• "The Nudist Nun"
• "Sonnet 19"
• "Reparations Now"
• "Hoping I'm Wrong"
• "Bird Feeder"
• "Pete and Henry"
• "Nero: A Rap for Republicans"
• "Croissant"
• "Mandela"
• "The New Jim Crow"
• "The Wire"
• "Why Socialism?"

From By Heart

• "Ahiti"
• "As Some Fertile Seed"
• "Greed Screed"
• "I Sing the Ass"
• "Lying Lost Among Your Arms"
• "Now Thou Art Two and Twenty"
• "Sweet Smellin Woman"
• "This World"
• "Train Wreck"
• "Truth and Parable"
• "Why This Itch This Yen"
• "You"

Some Earlier Poems

• "Al and Bob"
• "The Lonely Puddle"
• "Ode to a Bagel"
• "The Rose"
• "Sardinia"
• "When Love's Liqueur"

Audio Recordings

• "Abu Ghraib"
• "Things About Kings"