Category: Poetry
_It Takes Practice Not to Die_ was originally published in 1964 by Van Riper and Thompson in Santa Barbara, California. The book is now out-of-print and the publisher no longer exists. The author's literary executor, Steven James Bartlett, has decided to make the book availabl...
Yes, yes, the words of the wise, but I do not eat their bread or cover my lips to swear by the debts of the guilty, for I can not see the light that moves men to take pity and n...
2. Part 2The needle between her fingers came to a pause as she smoothed the seams of her life and lingered over old threads of truth she had stitched with her own hands and bitten off he...
1. Part 1_It Takes Practice Not to Die_ was originally published in 1964 by Van Riper and Thompson in Santa Barbara, California. The book is now out-of-print and the publisher no longer...
4. Part 4Whereless in a sea of space, how shall we reckon with the dead whose graves we marked on a shifting land and left at a distance travelled by light? What pilot navigates our cour...