Poet and lawyer M.C. Bruce lives in McKinleyville, California. He has been publishing since 1999. He works as a solo lawyer in criminal law and family law. He worked for a number of years for the Orange County Public Defender. His experiences as a PD are found in the now rare chapbook 'Clients, ' though Mr. Bruce has plans to put an expanded version of the book on Kindle soon.
His son is a graduate student at Purdue University in Physics.
His wife, Rene Diedrich, is the anthologist of the world-renowned book 'How Dirty Girls Get Clean'.
Bruce was most recently published in an anthology of lawyer poetry which can be found on Amazon.
She brought her ghosts with her
When she came to this house.
She knows by the way the hound
Glares and growls at a space above
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Thou little shiny box which many days
Did entertain me on my lonely walks
Containing multitudes, whose random plays
Perplexed and pleased me. Now your silence mocks
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Her heart was a loaded gun
She went through this world
With the hammer half cocked
A bullet in the chamber.
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