Cyclone system, you star in a film — disturbing elements excite a false rapport in various substances: shadows shrivel in the park, metal turns to ice, and plastic bags to birds. With hook and eye unhooked, a shutter knocks against my thoughts — to punctuate and interrupt. With a rush of wings a dark-green shade […]

The world is too fucking with us, its crude commode cannot contain us. Had we sought to dim it our hearts like wands could will it and replace it with an imitation — scrupulous, exact, but happier, born out of wedlock, gridlock, and love, a beautiful bastard congested with itself. The world is too fucking […]

A city I hate, a shattered chair. I clot here, staring at war. A window streaked with breaks, another raging in its frame. What’s nowhere to a door if not the skin in me.

A city I hate, a shattered chair. I clot here, staring at war. A window streaked with breaks, another raging in its frame. What’s nowhere to a door if not the skin in me.

the earth rolls over careless for the most part the same                     variations in tone and reflection what’s hidden remains a city’s collapse   its             patterns of arrangements             entirely with movement being what it is take heart and rejoice nights toil upon us wanes without our knowing             what it means to be here   the the of fissures conversations held […]

curling up so numb not to feel the night and falling asleep there

I don’t want children    ever yours in particular my house is of the smallest kind unkempt dim and poorly built and can’t take such occupations it amounts to little and so on and so on undertaken slowly what would be left or not at all each minute as they say for now unmentioned as ever I […]

As we move slowly through the room I whisper to you as I often do in crowds a slow message like the alphabet in rote over your shoulder, my fingers touching between your shoulders my lips near your ear I tell you how you bring centuries of broken hearts with you like a cape of […]

unbelievable what today has been and each night the big outside after next year five years will be plenty     I think I did not     think change changed much of course     didn’t carried through the day till morning     steal in and cover me Jesus     I did not think let’s sing when we go down until the […]