Who Are You?

Evening Prayer

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray my soul I get to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the void my soul to take,
but first allow it hovering rights
around the neighborhood of my life,
to linger with my family and friends
and drift among the odds and ends
of all that remains and all that's done.
Let it laugh and have some fun.
The voyage ahead, the voyage behind,
who knows the path that it will find?
The various forms that it might take,
a celestial dome, a birthday cake.
The soul is wandering on its own,
always finding another home.



I was born July 15, 1943, in New York City. Attended college in San Francisco and Boston, BA in English w/emphasis in Creative Writing from SF State, 1966, MA in Creative Writing from SF State, 1968. Since 1969 have owned 6 bookshops (separately), a graphic design business, and began publishing in 1976 with Floating Island I, an anthology of poetry, fiction, photography, and graphic arts. Four issues of Floating Island have been published and 49 other titles by individual poets and writers. I am currently the proprietor of my 6th bookshop, Floating Island Books, in Cedarville, California, in the far northeast corner of the state, and am about to reprint some of my titles that have gone out of print, as well as some new titles.