Touch
From our family bones make marsh-duffsoil, salt, a kingdom of seedling, stalk—Drinking purple dawn, we wade in the strangeautumnal songs, swallow sunshine, sweet cornskin,...
Remembrance
The sun sleepsIn the dirt, here.I am less smoke, more steam,The refreshing kind of bitter.
In the dirt, here,We’ll plant our feet and leave.The refreshing...
observant gravity
a sort of protestis underway performedin excellent style bythe superfluity of those who have ever beenbeloved by youwho beat with a hoop-stick against...
Earthly Interference in Cosmic Communications
Waves pass through me,Slicing me nicelyWhile leaving me whole.
Currents beseechMy embarkment:Admiral of the crests. Yet
Paper with dead presidentsOccupy so much...
too far out
holding fire,but taking aim -
puttingBackthe hands of time -
hidden in my breastshattered fragmentsof bombs and rockets -
making my waythrough unknown waters
a shadowpasses...
Suburban Spiritual
Someone plays “Amazing Grace”On a xylophone.Reverbs from the bombingsAdd percussion.
Unexpected heat drives many indoors,Even the crazy flying twin garage flags.Shadows hidden in showersBecome...
The Museum of 3:00 am
This is when they visit youall the gathered piecesof everything.
They come rushing inin groups, in squads,in platoons, in cliques.
And the...
Globe-Spinning
To make my own book about a voyage to Japanwhen I was nine, I clipped color picturesfrom a travel magazine, pretendingI’d set sail, arrived...
stars melt in your skin
for R.M
quiet nights held inside your hands like water waitingfor the chance to become your ladder.
you first reminisced, as if...
After William Carlos Williams
So much
De
Pends
Uponthe dazed chickens
Fraughtwith meltwater
Besidesthe demonic and menacing
Icecream truck
Thatcirculates the neighborhood
Withan off-key kilter tune:
(Davidsings-“ dee bee dee bee dee bee boop...
