RD Armstrong  (Raindog): How about: Old too soon, smart too late. Or: Raindog lives in Long Beach, CA amidst the ruins of a career as a small press publishing mogul. Visit the remains at Lummox Press  

Eyes Like Mingus: A Jazz Poetry Anthology. RD Armstong, editor. Little Red Book # 8. Lummox Press, 1999.

Featuring: M. Hartenbach, L. Jaffe, L. Lerner, G. Locklin, T. Moore, BZ. Niditch, R. Smith, S. Wannberg, M. Weber, A. D. Winans, RD. Armstrong
 

Read about the LRB (Little Red Book Series).

Things I Notice #4

 

Jacaranda's lilac blush
sultry under a gray
watercolor sky

Four crows in a line
one riding shotgun
cut diagonally through
the late-morning air
In the oil field wasteland
marsh grass bows
away from sheets of rain
a crane contemplates
its wrinkled reflection

Standing in line
on a rainy Saturday
later afternoon blues drifts
in with wind's eastbound rush
fickle storm blunders
through town

The light
flickers in and out
stucco and glass shield me
a wild heart calls
the world turns
as if to look

it's spring
and the search
for love
continues.

 

from Fire and Rain, Vol. 1

 

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