Petroglyph Americana is a book-length poem about American and Asian landscapes just released by Empty Bowl Press. Empty Bowl is an independent press in Port Townsend, Washington, that has published beautiful books of poetry, essays, and translation with bioregional, anti-militarization, and Pacific Rim themes since the 1970s.

Petroglyph Americana is available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and may be ordered by your independent bookstore.

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OCEAN HIEROGLYPHICS is a 58-page book of poems, paintings, and photos that express the color and texture of the ocean. You can order the book with a credit card using the Paypal button below.
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1 copy $18.00 2 copies $30.00 5 copies $60.00

The second half of the album, 10 original songs, will be ready at the end of June–pre-order it HERE!

Click to listen to Where Will You Go When Your Heart Is Free,
from the new album “WHERE WILL YOU GO WHEN YOUR HEART IS FREE.”

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Listen to “Between the City and the Sea,” the first song on
OCEAN HIEROGLYPHICS!!

OCEAN HIEROGLYPHICS SONG TITLES AND ALBUM INFO

Listen to samples from FROM THE WINDOW OF A TRAIN

We’ve all gone about 10,000 miles too far in every direction. Train, boat, helicopter, jetski, horse, somersault, bellyflop, whatever. Steel engines, coal smoke, landscapes passing through a streaked pane of glass. Spilled coffee and peanut shells strewn across the floor like abandoned hopes. Don’t worry about it. Buy your ticket. Step from the cement platform to the moving car. Read your pulp detective novel, watch the wheat silos drift by, stare down into the stained stainless steel toilet bowl, watch your efflux disgorge and spill onto the ties between the rusted tracks–

FROM THE WINDOW OF A TRAIN ALBUM INFO

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FROM THE WINDOW OF A TRAIN–
DEMOS AND RUNAWAYS
Available at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon and other distributors as a CD or mp3 download.

“The Death of the World Undone” is a 33-minute tribal-industrial composition that combines guitar feedback, beercan percussion, bamboo flute, djembe, and cricket songs–recorded on a single reel of 1-inch analog tape at Hinoki Studio in Dulan, Taiwan, in the mountains above the Pacific coast.

Here’s a sample from “Death of the World Undone”

A selection from “Migration” part 1:

islands rise
from Pacific blue
like amphibians,
low and long,
with teeth raised into clouds
and tails that moult
from green to blue,
lipped with shimmers of sand
and wreathed in tropic flowers….

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Blue Bird Gray Day
Re-evolution

“Re-evolution” is about crawling out of the sea a second time, trying to get it right. This piece was composed on the Pacific coast of Taiwan in 2003, but recently revised and recorded in Seattle.

“Blue Bird on a Gray Day” was written in Beijing after several months on the road in Vietnam and Western China. The words go like this:

It’s been a hard day to make it through
I never thought I’d feel so far away from you
A thousand city skylines striding thru my brain
And I’m tired

Sometimes I forget how much I love you
I don’t know why…it’s some kind of misguided continental drift of my mind….taking me over….making me lose myself, I lose myself….

I’ve been walking all day these city streets
Everything is changed, everything is gray

I saw a blue bird fall down from the sky
He walked up the street, stepped into a bar, ordered up a drink
He drank a double shot of whiskey, smoked a cigarette….
Played a lovesong on the jukebox, told a couple of dirty jokes…
All the barflies laughed

Then he stepped back out into the gray
Spat in the gutter, spread his wings, rose up into the air
And the wind blew him away

I wish I could follow, follow
I wish I could follow him
I’d fly back to you, you
I’d fly back to you