married 50 years
he reads
her the NY Times'
obituaries
while she
makes green tea
*****
the ragtag
family sleeps
on subway
grates lulled
by warm
moving trains
*****
why bother
pressing
her home
grown flowers
she never
calls
*****
his father
beat him
black and blue
her husband her
their son
his son
*****
warmed by late
winter’s sun
she waits
for the casino bus
reading a romance
novel
Bionote
Paul Lobo Portugés--reared in Merkel, West Texas, until saved by UCLA, the American Film Institute, and UC Berkeley. Teaches creative writing at UCSB. Taught creative writing at UC Berkeley, USC, SBCC, and the University of Provence. Proud father of two sons. Books include The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg, Saving Grace, Hands Across the Earth, The Flower Vendor, Paper Song, Aztec Birth, The Body Electric Journal, The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson, Ginsberg: On Tibetan Buddhism, Mantras, and Drugs (Word Palace Press, 2013), Breaking Bread (Finishing Line Press, 2013), and Mao--1,000 Poems for Revolution (forthcoming). Poems are scattered in small magazines across the Americas, Europe, and Asia . Wrote a few films including Jack and Marilyn. Behind the Veil, Shakespeare's Last Bed, Fire From the Mountain, et al. Poetry videos include To My Beloved, Kiss, The Lonely Wind, Lovers, Of Her I Sing, Fathermine, Stones from Heaven, The Killing Fields of Darfur, Who on Earth, et al. Received awards from the National Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, The Rockefeller/Bellagio Foundation, et al.
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