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There is a book of California sketches, a book of seasonal pieces and five poetry chapbooks. The way they’re organized is noted at bottom.

1. California: A Book of Beginnings: in ten short essays.

2. Ghost Walking with Richard Brautigan: San Francisco during lockdown.

3. A Year of Poems/ Evening Poems

4. The Imperfect Tree Survives the Ax (political poems)

5. Steamer Day (San Francisco history poems and rough drafts)

6. Pumpkinalia / & On Christmas Road (Four Christmas meditations)

7. Poems I Invite You (early efforts and photocopies)

8. The Fact of Breath/ CoEvolutionary Covid (archetypal essays on the Pandemic)

9. “Emperor Norton, Robin Williams and the Bicycles of the Afterlife”- a San Francisco Halloween Poem

10. Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back About Arlo Guthrie/ Pete Seeger/ & Bruce Sherman, Bookstore Balladeer; I met a Beatle

11. Red States Revelations: The Gospel of Larry. Meek and mildly offensive, so I’m sorry.

12. Garden of Stones: An Essay on Monuments and Murals

13. A Norwalk Ohio Memory/ Ballad of a Wolf-faced Eel, an anecdote for Uncle Obie

14. My Bridge: An Ohio Journey- With Thoreau

15. A Springtime Story for the Lincolns: a meditation

16. My Debate/ Pieces From the Crate: poems during wartime

17. The Little Book of Guns

18. Nickelodeon: A Niles Canyon notebook, San Francisco sites.

19. The Immaculate Kitchen/ and Everyday Life in the Ancient World: two spiritual bookends

20. On the announcement of the death of J.D. Salinger: a letter

21. The Day I met George Plimpton: a notebook on freedom of the Press

22. My Supreme Courtyard/ Heaven is in Your Pocket: Two Poems (by request)

23. Send Me No Magnets: a poem of Summer for your refrigerator

24. Hospice: a notebook. Poems and paragraphs. (May be combined with the notebook entitled “I’ll Take The Stairs” about death and art in modern society.)

25. My Meditation Shack: a novella awaiting a title an ending and a plot.

26. A Beatles Christmas: a poem for my sister Kate. (with help from OAK)

27. Dear Jelly Roll

28. The City From Space

29. Premier Menuet; Vexations! Satie; Summer: Bix Beiderbecke and Music in the Air

30. You, Ocean

31. The Tree is You

32. Hunter’s Point Notebook 1

33. “Suspicious Disappearance”: Molly’s sleuthing a family mystery

34. The Great San Francisco Earthquake (and Fire) Blues

35. Acts of Oblivion

36. Old San Francisco Bay: Hunters Point Shipyard Notebook 2

37. Peninsula Nature

38. Ocular notebook

40. Jesse Benton Fremont at Black Point- a photo essay (California Beginning.

41. Summer: Bix Beiderbecke and Music in the Air

43. Ida’s Mad Fandango

43. Afghanistan

44. Mission

46. Bipartisan Buzzsaw

47. The Radical Cheesehead Demolition and Religious Freedom/ The Great Awakening

49. I’ll Take the Stairs/ A Spirit Photo/ Jeffersonian/Just My Imagination, Gore Vidal/ Joan Mitchell

50. In Memory of… (Presidential)

51. Hands of Time: A Book of Coincidences

52. A Little Song of Thanksgiving: Maslow’s Pyramid

53. On Christmas Road: Four Little Books

54. Beatles Xmas Poem

55. What the F Clarence

56. Trees

57. 911 Letter to G W Bush

58. Beatles Xmas Poem

59. Who Moved My Cheese?

60. The Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool

61. What the F Clarence

62. May Poem

63. Ingrid’s Family Recipes

64. Ingrid’s Elm.

65. My Woo Woo Journey continues…(excerpts from “Hands of Time”).

66. Remembering David Crosby. (Could add to California history.)

67. Glide Path (Memorial Day meditation)

68. Turning the Other Cheek a postscript to Man Without Country collection of pieces

70. Attack of the Murder Robots- a political romance

71. Automatic Poem

72. Arraignment/ Two Republicans Lincoln/ Trump/Name It-Claim It/ I Know You Are But What Am I

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Recent Pieces 2023:

-Anti fascist USA

-Hurled Sink 1

-Apt Comparison

-Hero’s Journey

-Horror to the Right of Me

-Christmas Movies

-Altar

-Speaking of Abortion: Save the Whales!

The Proceedings: Trump on Trial

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——Note on Organization:

If I were to collect most of the pieces in this Table of Contents I would create prose volumes and four poetry chapbooks. Many pieces fit together topically.

Book 1 California:A Book of Beginnings would also include photo essays 1. Old San Francisco Bay; 2. Hunters Point; 3. Jesse Benton Fremont at Black Point; 4. Peninsula Nature; 6. “I Get It, It’s Morning”; 7. Embarcadero to Mission Creek; “Ghostwalking with Richard Brautigan” 8. Mission; These are really part of my “California Beginnings” book of essays.

Book 2 “My Book of Seasons” would contain four Christmas pieces “On Christmas Road” plus “Beatles Xmas poem; Summer, one piece on Bix Beiderbecke; my autumn pieces include my Thoreau essay “My Bridge”; Redwood Rhapsody and Pumpkinalia as well as my autumn Woodstock essays, “Circles and Arrows” and the Pete Seeger/ Bruce Sherman memories and “I met a Beatle” and Halloween poem “Robin Williams and Emperor Norton and the Bicycles of the Afterlife”; the John Fahey monograph (a handmade book at Kay’s) and Spring includes “Spring Story For the Lincolns; etc

Book 3. Versions of Death, an Itinerary to include Hospice writings, Covid Year, The Royal Vault (“I’ll Take the Stairs”; Friendly Ghosts and a Book of Coincidences.

Political Pieces ( I considered not including as they are so ponderous and perishable but they include Man Without A Country/ Afghanistan/ Arraignment etc. I’ll enumerate this note later.)

Poetry comprised of 5 little chapbook collections: “Year of Poems”; “Evening Poems”; “The Imperfect Tree”; “Steamer Day.” plus Scrawls : early attempts.

Three Angels, a woo woo story