Vallejo Poet Laureate 2017-2019
PB Poem This fine city of Vallejo is giving us a choice in the way things go with a budget that is of the people. We get to choose where our taxes get spent, making for more efficient government. If you want to help our kids, the art scene, and homeless folks, too, fix the […]
I joined the Stonewall Democratic Club of Solano County, marching and dancing across Vallejo for the 4th of July parade. This is the poem it inspired. The Freedom to Love Dancing downtown, amid a proud parade of people and partisans, arising in a righteous rainbow, a revolution of love filled these streets for the first […]
I joined a group of about 20 menschy folks from my synagogue as part of the #wearorange march across the Golden Gate Bridge, protesting against gun violence. This is the poem that it inspired. Souls Aflame It is good to march. To keep your spirit charged. And so here we are. We pursuers of peace […]
Bernie on the Waterfront It started as a whisper, a rumor, skepticism. “Was he? Would he? Here? Really?” And by evening it became a wild roar, a joyous cheer, with excitement surging through the town, shouting, “Bernie is coming! Bernie is coming here!” Folks who don’t live here might miss the beauty of our […]
Bernie in Sacramento Standing sunbaked for hours, achy feet, people in the streets. collecting buttons, lazing in the grass, getting sunburned, hiding cross legged in the shade of the masses, waving signs about revolution and a better future. I think I found the hippie vote. The people who care if you and I can stay […]
