Bill Cushing Biography
Born in Norfolk, Virginia while my father was serving in the Navy, I was raised in New York's Queensborough. In fact the town I grew up in (Douglaston) is also the place that produced John McEnroe and James Conlon. In my youth, I was very mobile. I attended high school in Pennsylvania and then went to college in Missouri but did not last long there.
After that I was in Virginia, back to New York, then to Florida (with some extended stays in Baltimore, Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Virgin Islands) , and Puerto Rico before moving to the Los Angeles area where I have been since 1996.
Up where the mountains
curl like sleeping dragons,
peaks piercing
far above the clouds,
...
Hair bobs around a face
of Nefertitian beauty:
She sits with an arm
draped over the arm
...
A shape appears
and is gone,
comes into view,
disappears, until,
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