Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches

Reading poems from Muriel’s Journey and beyond—small box of cereal, alchemist confer with hypnotists, Osaka Afternoon—free-verse reflections from the caboose on poetry, community, and finding home in Japan.

Riffing about earthquake scars, zen temples, sea swims, scrapbooks, aliens, dinosaurs & 7″ records while rain falls in an engawa […]

Poems on hotel letterhead, resplendent with stamps – crafted in mountains, on tracks and seas, while finding ways to be […]

Analog loops, guitars, feedback and poetry about impossible alleys, 8 seat bars, villages with book shops, woolen scarves, Fado, Kathmandu […]

A Hungarian habit of recollection from creative endeavors to life admin, communiques and campsites, flowing in freeform from Kura barn […]

Riffs about the glory of journals, diaries, notebooks full of musings and importance of turning off inner-critic and not overthinking […]

Washing dishes and busted spectacles lead to rowing a lake in Nepal figuring out deity, enlightenment, peace and power with […]

Let’s not lose each other amidst the table cloth being pulled out from under glasses and dishes. Meaning: some technical […]

Thinking about “going home in October” or even more, going far away from home via freeverse poetry, read directly from […]

A heart-wrenching poem about an abducted boy called Simon – who lived nearby, was my age and sorta looked like me […]

Along his namesake trail on banks of Lynn Creek comes story of Group of 7 bohemian painter Frederick Varley’s 10 […]

Love in (most) all forms – from self to romance to heartbreak – explored through poems including: mis-quote from (probably not) Jack […]

Full of mis-spoken words, forgotten names and other sloppiness comes annotated thoughts (squished through time and space) for shut-ins, drifters […]

Upon turning 70 years old, Dave’s dear sensei (since a teenage Utah community college stint), Larry Harper (among various monikers) […]

Float to Istanbul, Muscat and elsewhere, and check in with Cleopatra, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Shah of Persia, Adam, Cain, Abel, […]

Disappearing, invisibility, loneliness, depression, anxiety, being lost, trying to not be found, trying to find white space to invigorate… Sometimes […]