Category Archives: Poetry

Preparations

Posted on April 22, 1986 by Rastaban

That day when spring is come and birds blow song, when wind is blue and sun stirs up thrashing about till cold be gone and buds peek forward from the womb of the tree raising their heads like flowers to … Continue reading →

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Riddle #12

Posted on June 10, 1985 by Rastaban

All life-long I have been lover to fire. Nothing I like better than my back straight to the heat, hat off, mouth wide open, staring up, gulping down to the full your unintended gifts of food. My genitals lay exposed … Continue reading →

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Riddle #5

Posted on June 10, 1985 by Rastaban

What kind of songbird am I, anyway? I, who have never sat in a tree or pecked at the bark of a pine. I, who have never nested in forest or flown with the wind, smelling the excitement of a … Continue reading →

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4 Poems on Nudity

Posted on October 10, 1981 by Rastaban

Dirty Eyes Public nudity is illegal in the national forest for the forest has no eyes but dirty men do and dirty men run the world, run it dirtily and when dirty men get naked it is only to put … Continue reading →

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Smells

Posted on June 10, 1981 by Rastaban

There are certain smells that hang around no one but girls I’ve found. There must also be a smell for boys, maybe the scent of their pee or maybe their toys. But I cannot tell no matter how I try … Continue reading →

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Whether

Posted on June 10, 1981 by Rastaban

If you take ten things you know and mix them well together and dump them to a salad bowl will it help you find the weather? Ok, you bring a million things into your search of weather or split them … Continue reading →

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