Caveboy

We enter the Paleolithic, at the dawn of art-making. Humans have evolved into adept hunters who know the world with their senses and their dreams.  The poet envisions a Boy, a teen-ager, who is being prepared by his mother for his first hunt. He is successful and kills a doe. That night, a girl comes to him for the first time. In a dream, once again he tracks a doe and finds himself in a cave occupied by his mother’s totem, the bear.


Caveboy is a finely-tuned work of imagination, in which the poet calls forth the Mother who dreams her Boy, now art-maker and hunter, home.


She’d caressed him, his downy cheek,

as softly as she could with a hard palm. When her hand held his to make

him stand, he was still her creature.

No one else’s. She knew this better than anyone, better even than

his father would know 

who belonged to whom, as long as there was life. By making her Boy

from her life, she left her print in him.



Caveboy is a chapbook in stanzas, presented as a Multi-Touch book, with readings by the author.