urban Fits
.This collection of poetry explores the urban landscape of Vancouver, BC. The poems both celebrate city life and express a yearning for belonging amid urban complexity, finding redemption from from without and from within the city's walls, where we hear cries for significance. Often, the most unexpected revelations are found in the city's hidden corners.
The title, Urban Fits, suggests the neurotic state of urban life and questions whether the urban environment is fit for human life, but the title also implies that those who live there must fit themselves into the city as home. With humor and word play, through phrasing and startling metaphor, the voices in the poems offer spiritual insight into urban life.
Publisher: Destinee Media (2010)
Order: Amazon
from the book...
A Commencement for Urban Poets
Feed in the limos and the gutters,
feed on the disenfranchised,
or on the franchised
in their penthouse suites
with crisp as lettuce
clean smelling suits
and silk ties.
Like mangy strays, scavenge
on unsuspecting passersby
toting shopping bags
of rage and grief
of love lost or told off or never found.
Dig for naive harmonies
that play in a boy’s hands
beneath sweet-smelling hair, beneath
the coat of demure, pubescent grins
against the bus stop wall.
Like mice, poke
at fragile shells uncovered
in musty corners
of stair wells
in East Hastings hotels,
press until
the shell breaks with light
or oozes puss
from a junkie’s sleepless nights
and labyrinthine dreams.
And then, like hawks
swoop and fondle
in tall grass swaying
with hushed jubilation;
soar azure heavens
and claw at the pre-dawn sky
until it bleeds redemption
in a star-struck dew drop
clinging tenaciously
to the soul of night.
The title, Urban Fits, suggests the neurotic state of urban life and questions whether the urban environment is fit for human life, but the title also implies that those who live there must fit themselves into the city as home. With humor and word play, through phrasing and startling metaphor, the voices in the poems offer spiritual insight into urban life.
Publisher: Destinee Media (2010)
Order: Amazon
from the book...
A Commencement for Urban Poets
Feed in the limos and the gutters,
feed on the disenfranchised,
or on the franchised
in their penthouse suites
with crisp as lettuce
clean smelling suits
and silk ties.
Like mangy strays, scavenge
on unsuspecting passersby
toting shopping bags
of rage and grief
of love lost or told off or never found.
Dig for naive harmonies
that play in a boy’s hands
beneath sweet-smelling hair, beneath
the coat of demure, pubescent grins
against the bus stop wall.
Like mice, poke
at fragile shells uncovered
in musty corners
of stair wells
in East Hastings hotels,
press until
the shell breaks with light
or oozes puss
from a junkie’s sleepless nights
and labyrinthine dreams.
And then, like hawks
swoop and fondle
in tall grass swaying
with hushed jubilation;
soar azure heavens
and claw at the pre-dawn sky
until it bleeds redemption
in a star-struck dew drop
clinging tenaciously
to the soul of night.
