Signs of the times, caught in an ambience between the ideologies of the corporate machine and the Machiavellian dictatorships that pervade this spinning world, faced daily with a deadly injection of consumerism and the narcissistic elevation of the grandeur of the holier-than-thou individual, subjected to a universe, that like an engine overheated and burning up, is leaving it’s answers in the broken dykes in New Orleans, polluted streams that once fed our clean tributaries, gripped betwee...

These poems are dedicated to squaws, medicine men, highwaymen, hobos, riverboat gamblers, lumberjacks, foremen, brakemen, preachers, troubadours, nightriders of the purple sage, moon gazers, weavers, sorcerers, banjo pickin’ street sweepers, ragmen, pullmen, porters, keepers of the vicissitudes of truth and all those who follow the great spirit, past galaxies, into new mornings..

Gringos were told, borders patrolled, Mexicans bold, lash at the bags full of cash,  Men in dark suits, dance in pursuit of rewards that would settle a score  The Matador prays in dark corridors alongside black frocked priests  prayers to beseech and tame the beast he is facing  Keroac ruled the road proving the nation adverb full of action, put to test  jazz and women did the rest, mollify what they knew best  Give the peop...

Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on the ongoing "war on terror" amplify fear and anxiety as if they were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions, scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons, and fears of overpopulation.Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties addres...