WINTER GRAPES They took her toys and her lover. So she bowed her head and almost died. But her thirteen roots like her fourteen years smote with sword the elusive […]
Poetry
DICROTON ON STEMS (translation)
DICROTON ON STEMS Very close to the citrus evenings the proud sacrificial lambs loom. They button and unbutton the velvet treasure of their belts. They sow hazelnuts capture partridges display […]
Journal - Poetry
Easter Shade
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 […]