making mythology on an island in the Ionian Sea
when the parea this timethree sympaticos decidedto spend a week on the islandLefkada the cousins balkedso...
Bold City Rats
this is the dreamscapeour delusive contentment
the afterglow and the roachthe street sweepersthe skin scratchersand the dope
we are the rats in the trash...
Mid-Atlantic Tributaries
Flag folded, receipt penultimate,bridges slumping, leaves rotten, brownedges curling inward, raceunder the trusses, down, downahead of the ice crystals, coagulatingskyward in cobalt, excess...
art opening
instead of a gun
you use a camera
amputees
are your subject
/these poor people/ you say
the walls of the gallery are dark
prints pinned neatly under spotlight
//life...
LACUNA
Another sun unfurlsover chewing gumcanyons, long gnawedby your foothold.
A corpus colossus,hippocamping: you couchin fault lines, hammockedwhite matter.
Stroke mewith each toss-turn —a neuron-starved bender.
Hypoxia will...