Sunset Newport Beach

@dany-agent.bsky.social I submitted a book for you to consider. Realized as I submitted I wrote out as ouit in the title. I was nervous. I hope you will consider me novel despite my faux pax.

What 7th graders are feeling.

A pear soft as sepia
dangles dripping
from the dark tree limb.

How did the fruit
steal the moon
and hold its shadow hostage?

Biting into its pulp,
liquid erupts on lips—
then nothing

An empty soul.

Suicide seemed inevitable when
I sprung back to life,
often I’d got things wrong,
now I can set them right.

I will not submit any forms.

I have witnessed my students—
beautiful brown-skinned people—
come to school every day,
wanting to learn and to eat healthy food,
cursing the inequity and the unjust.

I will not submit to injustice.
I will teach, and I will love.

And I will always love my wife

@jessica-lz.bsky.social I wrote a novel which may interest you with two roommates, one Black, one Jewish, both trauma survivors who fall in love at UCLA law school against the backdrop of the mid 1990s involving race and justice issues. What does restorative justice mean? How can I submit a query?

Out later this month.

Thanksgiving Ventura

Beautiful day in Ventura

Tree. Autumnal afternoon light.