Dane’s Poem Links

  • New Poem in Paper Street: Fame

    A new poem entitled Fame appears in Paper Street, a journal from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…   Fame I almost believe, walking towards the exclusive Squaw Creek Resort, that I am somebody else. Eager hands assign guest badges at this 49ers’ Celebrity Ski Classic, everyone roaming round the lobby like paparazzi, looking to see who might be

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  • Blue’s Cruzio Cafe: The Jeweled Net of Indra

    For a truly unique visual & auditory experience, check out my poem The Jeweled Net of Indra at Blue's Cruzio Cafe: www.animatedpoets.com/indra31407-2b_30fps.html    

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  • Rock & Sling: Three Poems

    Rock and Sling:A Journal of Literature, Art, and Faith is a fascinating journal dedicated to sustaining a forum for writers "to search both the depths and near misses of spirituality", and "writing that nudges up against Christian faith". For instance, publishing a poem from the vantage point of a gay Judas musing on his relationship

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  • Short Film-Poem: The Lawn Bowling Incident

    My brother Scott Cervine is a film-maker and editor, and did a short film based on an old poem of mine entitled, The Lawn Bowling Incident. You can view it on You Tube, at: The Lawn Bowling Incident, on YouTube Check out Scott's films at MOVIES FROM THE HEART website: http://www.moviesfromtheheart.com/   The Lawn Bowling Incident

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  • We Are This — A Poem both Agnostic & Spiritual?

    This poem first appeared in the journal Lucid Stone; in the agnostic anthology Above Us Only Sky, as well as my own chapbook One Small Life Breaks Open.       The poem weaves elements of early Gnostic and Christian themes, wrapped in a bit of existential poetic proclamation at the end that, indeed, we are this

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  • Raven Chronicles Poem

    Watching the news recently made me remember a poem I had published in the Raven Chronicles Special Issue: This Neutral Air – 9/11: What Needs To Be Said. The poem is entitled NORTE AMERICANO and appears below. Check out Raven Chronicles at their website for socially infused writing that is provocative and well-written: Raven Chronicles

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  • Poetry Should Matter

    This poem first appeared in the journal Buckle &, and will appear in my new book from Plain View Press entitled The Jeweled Net of Indra in 2007:   Poetry Should   Poetry should matter like water   something to die for   necessary as air   bread for the hungry not   shelved, pristine

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  • Why I Love Fundamentalists

    Here's another quirky poem I like, published in several journals, based on a true life experience as I visited my in-laws in Indiana. In this day and age of polarizing blue/red states, conservatives and liberals, this poem expresses a bit of the category-busting opportunities that often surround us…   Why I Love Fundamentalists   I

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  • Sex On The Kitchen Floor

    The following poem was published in The New Laurel Review, and the Porter Gulch Review…it's a fun favorite, read in a variety of forums including Mary Orr's (a local Vipassana Buddhist teacher) Flesh & Spirit couple's workshops. The poem also appears in my book What A Father Dreams:     Sex On The Kitchen Floor

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  • Two Poems in THE BIRMINGHAM POETRY REVIEW

    The following two poems were published in the Winter/Spring 2006 edition of the Birmingham Poetry Review:   After the Amputation   At ninety-five in the nursing home, Aunt Opal says I don’t know where my leg is, and my mother replies someone’s taking good care of it. Her dead husband, forgotten. Her small house, not

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