The flickering begins at 7:43 in the morning
Touching retina then soul by 7:44
Black background turns flesh orange
And alphabet blue
Confidence burning browser
Like tiger turning time
Heart a pounding jackhammer
Legs twitching tambourines
Religion losing its place like orphan in bread line
Brain attacked by boredom
No letters
No numbers
Just me and you
Conjoining in the clouds
Born in Vienna, Austria, 51 years ago, Luza is Poet Laureate of North Hollywood,
California, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Twenty-five of his books are published.
His latest, New York Nadir, is his 22nd collection of poetry.
His poetry appears in more than 60 literary journals, anthologies, and websites,
such as Askew, Pegasus, Spare Change, New Laurel Review, Nerve Cowboy, Poetic
Diversity, Writers of the Desert Sage, Poetry Motel, Poet’s Weekly, Lummox
Press Anthologies I-III, and Roguescholars.com.
Luza has performed his poetry for live audiences across the country 80+ times.
He has also organized more than a dozen readings in places such as New York City,
New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. He presently co-organizes
and hosts, with Mary Aneeta Mann, the monthly UNBUCKLED: No Ho Poetry Reading,
which is the longest-running literary series in North Hollywood, California.
