Buford Buntin -  has been published in Reed Magazine at San Jose State University, as well as The Archer in Eugene, Oregon, The Guardsman at City College of San Francisco, and in Poetalk Magazine in Berkeley.  A broadside of the poem appearing on this website was produced as the result of his enrollment in  the Painting and Poetry class at New College of California in San Francisco.
 
 
 

 
"Christ, you know it ain't easy ..."
John Lennon

"own" 10-27-04

Every-
     body
fools around
     with drugs
and bug-
ging me
            I
know most 
 of the 
     time
they don't
         in-
tend to they
just want
to
take a few in discretions get out
their opinions
        mine's 
so differ-
ent I'm so
sure I'm 
trying to be right

learning slow-
ly

slowly

how to be on my own.

Alligator                    3-25-05

Like an alligator
    I have not quite
survived the gulf coast swamp,
        my scaly skin
        damp, peeling.

the feel of the West Coast sun
        beating down in March
        outside endearing me
        to a better life
        after being shut down from love

        I look back
        at the humid in the 
        arid air of California
        beaches & oceans
        on each shore,

        the dilapidated house,
        ny furious brother's warm breath
        blasted toward me,
        the dogwood trees
        our dubious shade
in the near one-hundred degree heat & humidity,
my walking away to his sad frown,

        my needing yet another
        dryer new day..