S.A. Griffin lives, loves and works in Los Angeles. Editor, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Firecracker Award), Mr. Griffin has been appeared in many poetry zines and anthologies including Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond edited by Suzanne Lummis (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2015) and the upcoming Cross-Strokes (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions) edited by Paul Vangelisti, Neeli Cherkovski and Bill Mohr. In 2014 he released his newest collection of poetry Dreams Gone Mad With Hope on Punk Hostage Press. Since 1985 he has been touring extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada with poetry performance super groups The Lost Tribe, White Trash Apocalypse and The Carma Bums. From April-June of 2010 he toured the United States with Elsie The Poetry Bomb in an effort to foster civil disagreements. Named Best Performance Poet for The LA Weekly by Wanda Coleman, in 2011 he was honored to be the first recipient of Beyond Baroque's Distinguished Service Award. On his blog talk radio show Onword he has had the real honor and privilege to interview many world-class poets and writers including three time Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky, beat poet and writer Hettie Jones and Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, editor Poet Laureates of The United States. In 2014 he edited and published Michael Lane Bruner's Natural Geographics (Rose of Sharon Press) and most recently had the privilege to edit Scott Wannberg's newest book The Official Language of Yes (Perceval Press, 2015). Father, husband and Vietnam era vet; he is owned by two beautiful cats.
A
Hollywood Story
strange, but true, angels find you
standing in line waiting to take your
last few dollars out of the bank
when the rent’s due and there’s
nothing in the cupboard
but a crumb
or when you turn just so
and somebody is there with
the right kind of eyes to catch
your falling star inside
their wonder
then the light breaks thru
and the messenger dove
arrives with the news
long live the song of yourself
that knows the pilgrim child
that knows your dream
the one that you
rode in on
never know where
you are going and you will
always get there
bet on it
and ride
from Dreams Gone Mad With Hope (Punk Hostage Press, 2015)
strange, but true, angels find you
standing in line waiting to take your
last few dollars out of the bank
when the rent’s due and there’s
nothing in the cupboard
but a crumb
or when you turn just so
and somebody is there with
the right kind of eyes to catch
your falling star inside
their wonder
then the light breaks thru
and the messenger dove
arrives with the news
long live the song of yourself
that knows the pilgrim child
that knows your dream
the one that you
rode in on
never know where
you are going and you will
always get there
bet on it
and ride
from Dreams Gone Mad With Hope (Punk Hostage Press, 2015)
© 2015
S.A. Griffin
S.A. Griffin was a Feature at the November 2015 Second Sunday Poetry Series
S.A. Griffin was a Feature at the November 2015 Second Sunday Poetry Series