April 2020

bio

photo by dave scriven

    David Scriven is an environmental engineer who lives with his wife Lynn in the hinterlands of Western Riverside County. He does volunteer work for a non-profit religious organization, takes pictures, and plays harmonica in a band. He has two grown-up daughters. His photographs have appeared in the book Weird California and in several publications dealing with bugs.

The News

Under a crumbling stone sky
I stand on the bank of a river of sewage
Choked with trash and bloated corpses
Floating languidly by
One disappearing from memory
As the next bobs twisting into view
Someone next to me points--
Oh, cute shoes!
And I nod

copyright 2020 David Scriven