Entranced by Fire
I light the forest,see what burned looks like,more visceral than AIpictures. Flaking branches,like fish on a grill.Black smoke, crawlingalong acre after acre...
Resilience
Even the “R” has curvesbends to the groundreboundsjoins the othersto lead the wayon its thin legs
The Jade Belt
I feel the scales form.First behind my...
When Horowitzfor my brother
When Horowitz played Carnegie for war bondsyou were an ovumswimming through the ovary,a pearl among the roe.Scraps of cloudstruck sharps and...
Consider The Frappuccino
caffeine’s godly powers
are only a few slurps away.
banish ennui! conquest thought with energy!
don’t taste, except what you remember you tasted of
the first...
typing double r's
is a mistake my computer is attached tolike loving the wrong personor eating after 8
it can’t resistgiving me a string of themeach...
Winter Solstice
We drive in the darkpast the open fieldsinto the neighborhood:Millions of lights on the housesin the trees—the world a-twinkle with hopewhile overhead a...
Street Scene
Early evening heat rises frompavements, from cement and asphalt,carrying a scent slightly sour,slightly acrid—oily and tar-like.
Outside the café, beyond its fenced-intables, a large...
