Randy Prunty: California Poets Part 9, Four Poems

Randy Prunty

December 22nd, 2025

California Poets: Part IX

Randy Prunty

Four Poems

Bus Driver Pastoral Sonnet

I

love

the

first

autumn

rain

and

how

it

awakens

the

dormant

fender

benders. 

Sitz Im Leben Sonnet

Priest,

scientist,

poet

walk

into

a

bar.

Bartender:

what’s

the

adaptive

value

of

suffering.

Sleep Lab Sonnet

After

third

screaming

kicking

terror

techs

wake

me.

“Go

home.

Try

not

to

sleep.”

Errata Sonnet

Euclid

didn’t

discover

the

Bell

Curve

by

sitting

on

a

knoll.

That

was

Leibniz. 

Author Bio:

Randy Prunty lives in the Bay Area where he works as a bus driver. In 2022 BlazeVox published Test Camp, a collection of his poetry. Other work can be seen in Poemeleon, Volt, the tiny, Concision, Poem Alone, Parentheses, New American Writing, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Fence, and Trilobite. A new chapbook, Gravity Catches All Things is out from Three Count Pour, a Selva Oscura Press imprint.