Two Poems by Rick Lupert "Land" and "At the Nutridge Luau"
Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry since 1990. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and he created Poetry Super Highway and hosts the weekly Virtual Cobalt Cafe series. He’s authored 25 collections of poetry, including “God Wrestler” and “The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express”, and edited “A Poet’s Siddur”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, the Noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night.” and “Ekphrastia Gone Wild” under his imprint Ain’t Got No Press. He works as a music teacher and graphic designer for anyone who would like to help pay his mortgage. Land We are leaving 32000 feet behind for space below these clouds. All I see is ocean but the pilot is confident we are a half hour away from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport where our luggage and a SpeediShuttle await. I didn’t pay extra for the lei greeting as it seemed gratuitous and there are numerous luaus in our future. Finally one of the islands appears to the left of the plane. Molokai – evidenc...