Duane Locke- Three Poems

TERRESRIAL ILLUMINATION, PART III, No. 1

The future is dangerous,

The future is dangerous,

Extremely dangerous if

Love and poetry are loved.

Be safe, on streets, in living room,

Love pornography.

TERRESTRIAL  ILLUMINATION, PART III, No. 2

God, naked, walked into church;

The preacher quickly

Turned off all the lights.

TERRESTRIAL  ILLUMINATION, PART III, No. 4

At YMCA, someone who called me “My brother,”

Stole my portable CD player,

And that night, I had to do my own singing.

BIO NOTES:

Duane Locke lives hermetically in Tampa, Florida near anhinga, gallinules, raccoons, alligators.  Has had published 6,836 different poems, none self-published or paid to be published.  This includes 32 books of poems.

His latest book publications are DUANE LOCKE, THE FIRST DECADE, 1968-1978 (First 11 books—Order from publisher Bitter Oleander Press or AMAZON---YANG CHU’S POEMS,

Order from AMAZON---TERRESTRIAL  ILLUMINATIONS, FIRST SELECTION, from FOWLPOX PRESS.

He is a photographer of Surphotos and Nature.  Has had 417 photos published,

Some as book covers.  A book of 40 of his surphotos  has been published by BLAZE VOX,

POETIC IMPRINTS, RESPONSES TO THE ART OF DUANE LOCKE, by Connie Stadler and Felino Soraino.

His paintings have been described in Gary Monroe’s EXTRAORDINARY INTERPRETITONS,

Published by University of Florida Press, and are in many private collections and museums.

He is a student of philosophy—favorites: Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,

Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.