Christmas Presents

I’m still playing around with the size of truth on the radio. Yesterday, Christmas Day, radio station WBAI broadcast me reading these two poems. Many thanks to Prairie Miller, the host of Arts Express, who aired them. Click the orange buttons to hear the two short poems.

Adornments

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Persimmon

A Poem

One more of my poems, a short one. Appropriate, perhaps, given the food poisoning I had last night:

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Persimmon

Push a finger into it

Squish its juicy splendor

Eat the rotten part first

So you’ll know the worst