The point of this blog...

Posting my poetry here is the only way I have to showcase my work in front of millions of online viewers and get paid for it [I hope]. Yes, it is vanity. Yes, I would love nothing less than adoration. This is my life's work. It's all I have. I'm no different than a front-man in a desperate rock band. The little magazines are disappearing and, as readers vanish, poets compete like micro-organisms in a rapidly evaporating drop of water. I want my art to be seen and loved, and will make it to the absolute best of my training and native ability. If I cannot make poetry that entertains, engages, evokes and convokes all at once then I have failed as a poet. My hope is that no matter what else, a visitor will go away from this site having read an unforgettable poem. The beauty of my blog is that effectively it is a free magazine of poetry, and it is my poetry and I call all the shots. I am beholden to nobody. I am paid only by the curious. This is the future, friends.