JAMES HOUSTON ARTS

  • 04/14/14

    ThreeIn this diner-cum-barNot including meBecause I never doEven when it’s my storyAnd, it’s alwaysMy story OneMy wife, my palSipping awayAt one of the twoFreebie beersListening to songsHeard on repeat TwoAt the otherwiseEmpty barBacks to the stageDraining their pintsMolson’s CanadianIn separate silences NoneOf this reallyAwful memory mattersMuch anymoreApril 14, 2014The settled, finalPublic performance NullAnd distinctly voidedSlocan…

    JAMES HOUSTON

  • ANATOMY of a JARANA

    Hernán Cortés landed in what is now Veracruz, México in February 1519 igniting, in addition to wars, indoctrination, pestilence and such, an immigration wave into that part of the Americas. This resulted in the introduction to the indigenous Nahuatl people stringed instruments such as the vihuela and baroque guitar, adapted and adopted into the folk-poetry…

    JAMES HOUSTON