A BIT OF ZEN

monks in meditation
have no need
for explanation

TENDERLOIN CAFETERIA POEM

I have sat one too many evenings
watching old men and women
eat their last meal
One eye on the dessert
The other on the obituary column

A.D. Winans is a graduate of San Francisco State. His poetry, prose and photography have appeared internationally in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Rattle, Poetry Now, City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, and the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles award for literary excellence. In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems.

Email: A.D. Winans

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