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There's a petroglyph in my front yard.  It is etched upon a large piece of local volcanic stone.  There is depicted on one side a man figure with a bow firing an arrow at another figure, on the other a spiral and a sun sign.  The peoples who inhabited these mountains were the Miwok of the Shoshone group.  In his book, 'The Handbook of California Indians completed in 1911, Alfred Krober the pioneering anthropologist stated that wherever he found petroglyphs the local people had no knowledge…

Taking the state of modern poetry of the English language as we find it there can be no other conclusion than that it has become the amature circus of the arts.   The popular form falsely infers from the brevity of a page or two that it is simple and easy to accomplish worthiness by stating either a personal accord with meaningful causes or an attempt at making the mundane miraculous by isolating a moment in time utilizing personal…

Taking the state of modern poetry of the English language as we find it there can be no other conclusion than that it has become the amature circus of the arts.   The popular form falsely infers from the brevity of a page or two that it is simple and easy to accomplish worthiness by stating either a personal accord with meaningful causes or an attempt at making the mundane miraculous by isolating a moment in time utilizing personal…

Sometimes you submit something for publication and you have no idea where it goes or who looks at it or even if a human being ever sees it.  To get some positive response I am now sending this attached letter with every submission.    Doktor%20Poetry.odt