20 Days of Verse
This is a cleaning poetics, one that polishes the soul and lets you get involved with all parts of the self in reference to the cosmos and the earth. 20 days to clean the spirit. I am approaching my two year mark without drinking alcohol and this is becoming my celebration of that, but much more. If you would like more information on this therapeutic literary shaman exercise and how to implement into a lesson plan for any post-literate age group, please email me. I hope you enjoy and are moved by my journey back to the desert, back to memory of war and addiction, back to flashing memories like postcards, back to the books, some forgotten and some common, to find words to use as shaman trigger of a poetics of immediate experience and emotive resolution to never return to the dragons of the past and the phantom future be damned!
 
Prelude Poem: My History of Hunting Brown People
             
             
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