Chapbooks coming soon
Several poetry chapbooks will be available for purchase when published.
Poems — reading index
Poetry
Where all of this started.
The songs began as poems, and most of them still are. The collections below are in progress; competition entries and chapbooks are out in the world, and the first books will appear here as they are published.
First collection — title and date to be announced.
Chapbooks — details coming.
Selected poems
Three poems from works in progress. Open a title to read.
Friend
I had a rooster once
He perched on a metal railing
on our front porch.
He woke the neighborhood
with his warning call that
dawn was upon us.
He would run to me
when I got off the bus
In the late afternoon.
I would greet him,
Pick him up and with both hands
fling him into the sky
At the apogee he would
open his wings
And glide back to earth
I loved the power of partnership
And I guess that he
Loved to fly.
One day he landed poorly
and broke one of his legs
It never healed correctly, withered.
I had a one legged rooster once.
Mi Castillo
As safe as
Can be
When
The world whirls
Us about and
Nature waits outside
The door
Crimson
In tooth and claw
No, I don't need solar panels!!
G'ral Pico
Calma del alma
Omnipresent maté
Fields of amber grain con
bovine beneficence
Ochre y scarlet sunsets de
La Pampa
Mi gente
Late Onset
The poem that became the song. Early 2026.
Fixation obsession desperation
Bibble babble leaping to the fingers
Bypassing tongue y brain
Irresistible unstoppable
hemorrhage
aortic geyser of consonants and vowels
Splashed across the page
Literary homicide writ
small across the cellular
constrained only by the screen size y life
From fog to high voltage arcing
medulla to cortex
Uninterrupted by corpus or awareness
Abruptly gone into the aether
from which they oppressed
Momentary clarity 'tween two selves
Friend
Read the complete poem.
Mi Castillo
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G'ral Pico
Read the complete poem.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — A Debt of Gratitude
Lore learned about Sor Juana through the Argentine education system, and then introduced her to me. Her advocacy of women’s intellectual equality and her immense poetic discipline and brilliance humble me. More about Sor Juana →
Sor Juana — Poetry Foundation ↗ More about Sor Juana →
Cien Billetes
We lay in bed
You recited y me lo interpretó
First of all- so hot
Poetry recitation in bed!
Secondly- WTF? My response below
Her face - abundant
Writing - triumphant y exultant
Still to this day timely y resonant
Her name y fame excavated
Hard won wisdom obliterated
Churchly hombres- Sor Juana abnegated
Hombres Necios recited
‘cross generations of tables
Memorized- almost worshiped
Todavía no inculcated
Por que?
Lore first encountered Sor Juana through Argentina’s education system, then introduced her to me—reciting and interpreting Hombres necios in bed. Her extraordinary formal mastery and her challenge to masculine hypocrisy still humble me. More about Sor Juana →
Prose & Stories
From Poem to Song
Original poems and musical adaptations, wherever distinct versions are documented.