Poetry

"...Mindless, reciprocal Mistake...."

"...made my way to a theater sized hall..."

"...Africa, haven’t you been shaken out of inertia?..."

"...They have stashes, yet they leave behind ashes..."

"...my ashtray is verging on the overflowing..."

"...his heart had gotten lazy..."

"... and afterward a walk along the dock..."

"...no one ever possessed the right to dream...."

"... it always makes me think of Alice..."

"...echoes of childhood on fading winds..."

"...like sarsaparilla and champagne..."

"...A piece of cloud and the color of dusk are riddles..."

A poem with commentaries.

"...We’re better than this..."

"...you can taste the bubbling laboratory..."

A sedoka is a form of Japanese poetry that consists of six lines.

"...ink that shone mighty and lustrous..."

"...of birds of every feather that flock together..."

"...how free is the press?.."

"...my paperless silence rustles too loudly with my despair..."

"...a certain disparity made itself manifest..."

"...Can crude chaos be noblest?..."

Scott Waters is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Oakland, California. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

"...He was many things..."

"...who he's become..."

"...trying to find their way..."

"...soliloquy as commentary..."

"...returned to the elms and eastern hemlocks..."

"If only it was July..."

"...Indigenous groups have been finally granted land rights..."