Out Of His Childhood

First Edition
*400 copies*
(C) June 2007 Ronald Baatz
all drawings & cover art by Ronald Baatz
This is Zerx chapbook No. 59
a split-chap with Mark Weber’s
Poems & Doodles
Zerx Press, 725 Van Buren Place SE
Albuquerque New Mexico 87108
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Cemetery Country

First Edition
*400 copies* August 2008
All drawings by Ronald Baatz

(C) 2008 Ronald Baatz
Zerx Press, 725 Van Buren Place SE
Albuquerque New Mexico 87108
This is Zerx chapbook No. 62, a split-chap book
with Mark Weber’s
Yoga & Painting & Jazz & Traveling by Air
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Say A Prayer For My Dog

First Edition
* 300 copies * August 2009
(c)2009 | Ronald Baatz
Front cover art and all line drawings
by Ronald Baatz

Zerx Press, 725 Van Buren Place SE
Albuquerque New Mexico 87108
This is a split-chap book with Mark Weber’s
tomorrow might be the day we get away from all that.
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ronald baatz | the river road house

THE RIVER ROAD HOUSE
I think it was Marquez who said that, because of nostalgia,
when you go back to where you lived as a child you face
the disappointment of everything looking smaller.
I found this to be true when one day I went back
to my childhood house on River Road, and I found
myself sitting in the car [...]

mark weber | tomorrow might be the day we get away from all that | ronald baatz | say a prayer for my dog

first edition * 300 copies * August 2009
Note: the headwaters of the Niger River are not technically at Timbuktu — at Timbuktu is a tributary that eons ago was the beginning of the Niger but over the time the rivers (the Niger is comprised of two ancient rivers) switched course.
textural advice: Todd Moore
author photo [...]

mark weber | bip bop de biddly bip de bip de bippitty boo

Mark Weber | 26apr09 | Photo by Janet Simon

mark weber | weet anorso

WEET ANORSO
rignu condorsay hadnogno antawanta
por wee token eally boken fweetonko
apom sh’d brake tree frozeen tea between
betwixt, crosswise shokan, be-all
…a poem should break
the frozen sea between us…
bring home the bacon
takes us for a ride in its new cadillac
knick knack paddywack give the dog a bone
rignu condorsay hadnogno antawanta be-home
be alone, begone, be lightning struck
jet-propelled word vortex
kaleidoscopic [...]

mark weber | there’s a drunk up ahead

THERE’S A DRUNK UP AHEAD
i can see em coming
i try to hold off
i give all my money away
it’s 2 days up ahead
there’s days off from work
a perfect excuse
i get busy
i tell myself
not this time
not this time
too much work to do
to get drunk
get wasted
go on a quick & nasty
2 day binge
(found my beret in the bathtub
this [...]

mark weber | move to the groove

Whenever

you’ll have the time check out Mark Weber’s Jazz Radio Show at KUNM Albuquerque. Here is the Theme with Michael Vlatkovitch & Cal Haines “Hotfoot Lady & Joe Friday” and just after this great tune the Heath Brothers “Move to the Groove” 1979 Langspielplatte Lp IN MOTION.

mark weber | yoga + painting + jazz + traveling by air

YOGA + PAINTING + JAZZ + TRAVELING BY AIR

first edition 400 copies August 2008. one of these poems previously appeared in MINOTAUR and there’s quite a few recent poems to be found at www.m-etropolis.com fontispiece photo of MW 30aug08 by Janet w/dimestore reading glasses. (c)2008 Mark Weber, Zerx Press, 725 Van Buren Place SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87108