Yaco’s award winning poetry has been published in Ladies and Gentleman: the Hudson Pier Poets and Skidrow Penthouse, Magic Fingers and Hands of Creation.

Yaco has been a featured guest poet at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 22 Below, The Writer’s Voice,  the New Year's Day Poetry Marathon, The Poetry Project, NYC, Beacon Art Show, and the Poetry/Spoken Word, Cambria, California. 

Siberian Slumber- awarded First Place in Poetry Kit's 2018 Spring Competition.

Siberian Slumber  

The solitary white bear and I

pad across lichen soaked plains

me for fish

he for seal

The pleasure of salted flesh we devour

stunned, fat, our backs numb

we lie on a pane of frozen earth

the black dome above us

sprays a lavender mane of light until our eyes fill

We slip, heavy, to a cave of teared ice,

frosted, soft bracken, crunch white,

to cover our face from the flame

he with paw, me with fleece

Our backs curl

we breathe a cloud

then we turn away

as the bear and I must do

and dream of bed

Me of yours

with its ivory pillows

the silver spirals of your hair

our rounded whispers of content

He of block ice

stripping winds

the splash of blue.

Baywood

Remembering was dangerous after the funeral

I preferred the sand spiked winds of winter

The cold grey curls on the bay

I walked along the water’s edge

Where volcanic core jutted

Black cypress chapels erupted out of quick sand

Water bubbled with spawning sharks

Tides teased abandoned eggs and stripped clam shells

In defense, I counted

One legged gulls

Searching for forbidden mollusks in frothing red tides

The shells of devoured crab

Left to crisp in next year’s sun

Withered bulbs of kelp uprooted from deep sea beds

Tangles of fishing line, like clumps of hair

Bobbers, red and white, tethered for life

Between bay and land death tracked me down

Hobbled my path with memories

More potent than white scorpions sliding down dunes

More stinging than the chain of jelly fish

Lacing around my feet.

Published Skidrow Penthouse/Summer 2000