Fragment #1

Androgynous or not
in this world or the next
blue-eyed Titular Beyng
paws the bedside table for his spectacles
upends the idle alarm clock
fluffs his pillow

stride unbroken as he plows
through elysian fields of timothy
her hair

travels with Herodotus
to the land of the cinnamon-birds

plucks the fabled amaranth

reads the occasional poem
that says everything
and nothing at all

Fragment #2

Senses atrophied
thoughts inherited
retro-coiffed
bleary-eyed Titular Beyng
glimpses (he believes)
beauty's skeleton in

a carmel wave
an industrial sunset
a rigorous bird

Can we judge him
too harshly
if in response to this
doubtful epiphany
he should lapse into

a dead word
lingering on
suggesting what

^

Biography

Vitals stats: Born: Jackson, Michigan; DOB: Sept. 24, 1959; Education: variable and ongoing: Engineering (Univ. of Michigan), Theology (Grace Theological Seminary), Near Eastern Languages/Culture, and Education (UCLA).Rilke's semi-proof of an afterlife. I paraphrase: the lifelong sense of "I'm still learning and therefore any sense of completion must come postmortem." My beautiful family represents my feminine side: my wife: Ania; and my two girls: Katia (4 yrs) and Nadja (8 mths). My current residence: Long Beach, California. My passions: reading, writing, and travel. My current mission: teaching math to inner-city Los Angelinos (Thomas Jefferson High School, Los Angeles, CA.). Influences: mostly dead guys: Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch, Thomas Mann, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Rilke, et al. A recurrent dream: being elsewhere.