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Since David Alpaugh created the “Double-Title” in 2016 more than 90 have appeared in journals that include California Quarterly, Gargoyle, Mudlark, Spillway, The American Journal of Poetry, and X-Peri. He teaches for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and UC Berkeley Extension and has been a finalist for Poet Laureate of California.

SELFIE…

Narcissus was the entreprenewer who tried

to take one first; but photography, being in

its infancy, his underwater camera did him

in. Still, the shimmering image that thrilled

Narcissus was our species’ first attempt at a

Selfie. Thus began our war on ephemerality

that continues to this day; that Shakespeare

fought with his sonnets; millions via photos

they display. Horton’s Who said it for us all,

soft, but clear—we are here, we are here, we are

HERE…

from Spillway #24 (Tebot Bach, 2016)