Our children run to find their eggs with hungry hands and hopping legs while half a world away they starve upon the carcass missiles carve. What conquered death and rose […]
Journal - Poetry
Exceeds Expectations
I am coming to understand your expectations. You expect me, finally, to be something other than idea, something not imaginary. You expect me to be a particular fleshy body. You […]
Journal - Poetry
Livelihood
I look up from the square display, frustrated with the problem of tangled information, its lossiness. Outside: weathered stone, eye-shaped leaves green, sun-drunk, serpent tongues, genital nerves, rhizomes, tendrils, fractal […]
Poetry - Satire
The American Horse
A giant American horse, bigger than all the West, carries ten thousand tiny cowboys. The saddle stretches out dotted with drywall dwellings. Asphalt leather straps connect the gas stations. Inside […]
Journal - Poetry - Satire
A little air
There is nothing so remarkably expansive as human vanity. They even use it to inflate balloons.
Journal - Poetry
A Pleasure
A pleasure is not a shallow pastel, a cartoon angel, a giddy bubble. A pleasure has teeth, time and shadow. Oceans are tugged back by the moon’s leash. I feel […]
Poetry
Stellar residue
A faint red glow, a retreating star… it won’t escape. It was, and so it is and will remain entangled in memory. On the nerve-fed retinal field cones reach like […]
Journal - Poetry
Gymnos Antaios
My body horizontal, face down I push against the earth. I push against the rock-skinned molten core, spinning space-top magnet. I push against the mother sphere, the curved blue breast […]
Journal - Poetry
I asked the tangle
I asked the tangle: can you spare a thread? And the tangle’s fibrous mouth formed a hole, and said: you have some nerve, some artery, some hair, some twisted DNA, […]
Journal - Poetry
The wrong candle
This candle must have come from petroleum, stolen black stash of Hades, not wax of Kore’s bees. A philosopher wrote that a proper tragedy must begin with an offense, an […]