hdmoe

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H.D. Moe Grew up mostly in Corvallis and Portland Oregon, Seattle, Oakland and Chicago. Had dyslexia (balanced brain, language being always translated through the dream-side). Served in the U.S. Navy and attended school on Korean War benefits. Studied poetry (with Theodore Roethke, Melvin La Follet, Philip Whalen, Herb Nelson, Bernard Malamud and others) as well as Philosophy and Science. Demonstrated against compulsory ROTC. After a series of adventures and misadventures, wound up in Cuba shortly after the revolution, met cartoonist Bob Smith on The Isle of Pines (the model for R. L. Stevenson’s Treasure Island) and traveled with him to San Francisco.
While in San Francisco, met visionary oil painter, Patricia Ross. Married Patricia and lived with her for 12 years in San Francisco, where daughter, Katherine, was born. Published in Now Now, Smoking Mirror and many other magazines. In 1968 started Love Lights, The Erotic Poetry/Art Newspaper of San Francisco - at that time the largest poetry publication in the world - which he and Patricia made and edited for 11 years. Curated two art galleries. Separated from Patricia in 1977.
Coordinated The San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1978. Met Frances T. Slack, editor of Beatitude Book Press, who published several books of Moe’s poetry, including “Ozone Allah,” “The Logic Of Snowflakes,” and “Quarks Heart.” Traveled in Southeast Asia for eight months, where “Immortal Amebas Jigsawpuzzle Electron Gambling Hong Kong - The Cup Lands On The Saucer” was published (in Bangkok) by the Thai Watana Ranch Press. Has had over 30 books of poetry published, including “Muse News,” published by City Lights in San Francisco in 1988.
Now lives in Berkeley, California. Serves as editor and publisher of Beatitude Press, Embassy Hall Press, and Deserted X Press; and as editor of the Berkeley Review of Books. Has recently published a book of philosophy (“How To Be God Now”) and two books of poetry (“Always Home” and “Birth To Birth”). Is working on a new book about a real and imaginary journey called “Royal Poetopia and The Wild Law Civilization.” Gives poetry readings in Berkeley and San Francisco, and philosophy lectures at the Fellowship of Humanity in Oakland, California. Hosts a philosophy group called “The Living Philosophers” at the North Berkeley Senior Center.

	WRITING Writing snakes from this pent-up pause huddling open-skied, luring mind tropes ‘neath a green dark’s deep phade Freed from all accidental strawberry childhoods boxing a robot miscellaneous wundersucht abiding recondite light jotting in the betweens’ stopwatch forever & again anti-entropy hearts kiss-off crazies’ woven stone galloping over the Gallopades-clock tripping across diphthongs’ vanishing cabaret to say not enough looks lark in your snowbird pages keepsakes interrupted mutatis mutandis catching up to the gone, muckraking thrills & dharma alarms yin yanging elephant chains’ recursive curlicue spindling tremolos unavoidable emptinesses’ abysmal bliss air a bic the opaque wave upon impossible wave signaling to a blind miracle plashing against the omnivorous gray V train existing before nothing at all was made lightless dawn snowing nightfall without the dark orphaning photons slow frosting under reflections eerie wink explanations taxi-in implanting die verse a tease miss appearing ray through muscling clouds their upside-down orange dogs glow inhaling Kafka’s noon whistling tooth fairy in super-duper phone booth’s taffy-pull epic odes aim from here to here like an anyway octopus why-not embryo fingering our banged-up mushroom trumpet imbibing our birthday cake of lead pennies high on a ship of tweedy-bird whispers in-fielding feelings’ velvet harrie carrie piping to you down deepening peeps backward as Bach in an illogical forest I, THE MANY Nothing inside me wants to get out or get in thinking eyes don't come through my bamboo wings smiling now envelop Birdland, yet there's no opening going down to the tune of my bones loyal as roulette finally is, all my dreams are within & enter the wonder of me at rest as a solid my skin breathing the clouds that never kiss or an occasional equation that never welcomes the birth of its enigma, nor the arriving & leaving of I, the many, curling into an echo always only once. SIGNING IN Church wombed hands uranium myopia cherubim doorway Leeuwenhock bindrune quick creation entailed doom made to lemon-aid fire within halcyon tropism, caterpillar reversed dawning fingernails leaf turning inordinate snake eyes of paradise fearing the clarity hid in their pain, ossified wows double-crossed twisted kisses’ kneeling shadow rolling words into ungrund sattiva gamma rays muscling smithereened zills doubting the wallabies’ lumpen proletariat manuscripts’ no-show, entities onioning tucked under conundrums, Ibis maybe dingalinging kaloons of the glowing sea exploding honeycomb clearing my sleep housekeeping nomads, lizard icebergs hammering-in the tears of Blake laws even more layers wonderously fallen ankhing neptune, cubby hole dreamscape bobbing utopia pixie with an explanation mark at bat. SIGNING IN 2 Continuum beginning faces window by shiny blindness green puff all is outside me alphabet crawdads track my survival mirage remembrance pondering a look in the dark there’s no abyss to those underneath build-ups labyrinths sighing questions’ grin over distances their razor blade shorelines printed cloudly electrons’ untouchable messiah asymptotic within the down-about sky fang dispelling eddies growling typos’ impossible liberty self-googoling numbskull breathing alive a disappearing mirror ghosting hospitals pollening, winking our ellipsis for the interior spurge balled on an ovaling, the circling thumb-sketch, wings in intuition glowing a new wild infanting of everything all-gone technology instantly done flying high thy ampersand		TODAY Today is a condom over a lighthouse my diaphanous trapeze sails a mind not its own a forever that escapes through the unreturned now I’m here & I’m not here silk worm windows caress a pendulum without an inner me always ventriloquisting a dancing hum waterfalls laugh from my gone ears forecastling wild habits loose above this grace-note air I’m edgewise whipsaw Kyzyl Kum, turrets, awareness dead to all other than this dying moment juggling gimbals secunded in the vanishing future embarking upon beyonds, whistling the juice of sorrows’ happy tomorrow teacup spooks rattle mousetrap chiropractors before antlers at dusk wink their black looks’ random reflection encompassing disagreement bugged takeoffs dot the napkins of oneness not here where I’m not I’m a walnut in the skull of my automobile Mount Shasta atop a pinpoint spinning auras around the daylight, hop-a-longing careful under a phantom whisper cobwebbing bellybuttons’ probability fuzz that the this it is, hiding immense empty-all knawing on our long johns no more me kriegspielling dreams of a wandering solid becomes the unborn for the logical bibcocks that fall through my seasonings are crazy as chaos & until evening lands its derby there’s no visions beneath my gray foggy touch. DIFFERENT & THE SAME Omnifient virgin familiarity rises to anew my grooves tuckered-out enigmas’ nocturnal mouth opens like a red hawk among snowflakes waving zeros in from singular destinies’ aftermath whatnot turning out the in off galactic pools ducking fluxes, traveling blind spots breved & imprisoned by a engineering cloud frozen truthful, roiling myriad plethora’s word-breath our bones are ladders lowered into aitches & Q’s pigtails ahead of the jellyroll lifting Aristotle fingering up the stars teeming autonomous reason buried in embarrassment, in hoodwinked microbes in the heartbeat of a ring-tailed dove ironing arrows & left out bottle-cap knees pincushioned by the unexpected encompassing loopholes dreaming me without sides WRITING Writing snakes from this pent-up pause huddling open-skied, luring mind tropes ‘neath a green dark’s deep phade Freed from all accidental strawberry childhoods boxing a robot miscellaneous wundersucht abiding recondite light jotting in the betweens’ stopwatch forever & again anti-entropy hearts kiss-off crazies’ woven stone galloping over the Gallopades-clock tripping across diphthongs’ vanishing cabaret to say not enough looks lark in your snowbird pages keepsakes interrupted mutatis mutandis catching up to the gone, muckraking thrills & dharma alarms yin yanging elephant chains’ recursive curlicue spindling tremolos unavoidable emptinesses’ abysmal bliss air a bic the opaque wave upon impossible wave signaling to a blind miracle plashing against the omnivorous gray V train existing before nothing at all was made lightless dawn snowing nightfall without the dark orphaning photons slow frosting under reflections eerie wink explanations taxi-in implanting die verse a tease miss appearing ray through muscling clouds their upside-down orange dogs glow inhaling Kafka’s noon whistling tooth fairy in super-duper phone booth’s taffy-pull epic odes aim from here to here like an anyway octopus why-not embryo fingering our banged-up mushroom trumpet imbibing our birthday cake of lead pennies high on a ship of tweedy-bird whispers in-fielding feelings’ velvet harrie carrie piping to you down deepening peeps backward as Bach in an illogical forest