Category: poems

  • Time

    Giddy with self-light a mountain recedes, inheres. I can’t tell branches from outdated antennae in this noon blitz. Let’s paw together at the imminence, red silo cup tumbleweeds rattling by on their soiled white rims. The houses here have garages and the garages have… portholes, I guess. Single circular windows between the roof’s vee. It’s […]

  • Sleepless Angles

    are why furniture while legs row the hazard of blurting pipes because be caution certifiably this colors bones sway in curtains sound like penciled in the transom of thinking bloats as blank as night hoisted a ladder of if on terminal stilts

  • Night Birds

    Untitled Painting by Robert Corless, 1961, watercolor on paper.     prep paper          to resemble dusk, music for a pull-your-through          reach-and-seek   whites, blacks,          mixed to a grey-first   into a wet, sloping wash of manifold blues          veined with thin red-currents                   and a foundational pink wash            maybe these are painted with Coltrane bristles?   […]

  • Therapy Poem

    At the livery we never met horses                                              and implication forced our polite registers down We expected flesh would make us learn                                              inferred particples as statements minus nudity minus poverty minus statement Katy on the couch last night calling me out on Breton We don’t talk about these things                  It’s cereal milk and Adele’s attitude                                                                                     Or I […]

  • From afar, a Little Resistance to Credos

                                                 (after Zbigniew Herbert) Almost as prayer,          the metamorphoses take you into their fold,          the shameful dreams of sunsets framed by the antlers of a deer or the vision          of Ouroboros, its spiral link to an ancient catenary strung back          to the mind’s fluidity making for an out or an around the dead eyeball of a […]

  • Small Harmonies (for Tom & Laurie)

    The pause of the heron. The nous of the crow. The whim of the magpie. The drift of the gull. The pitch of the skylark. The charm of the robin. The stealth of the bittern. The scope of the kite. The poise of the kestrel. The arc of the swift.

  • Firenze

    overlooked bank’s riches fleeting finery two king- fishers the Arno’s court- ed couple

  • Musty Part

    It were that legs beneath the medical Blanket had critical dimension—gone Under torches was hot audio, and picking At his molar bends his face into negligent Surgery. Founded himself upon ritual Porch lights couldn’t illuminate, but a cast Blurs the child’s unattended evenings, Wouldn’t it, the itch, welcome filth? Often flagrant, urging, coming, pally Nurses […]

  • Song

    Some boys is fluttering in the head. It is a cruel they run among. It is one boy who name is Song. He name his knife Gods Paw. \\\ A creek he sat disturbing fish. Fish lardy, blind, he petted fish. He pet disease in the low parts, where live was maggoty sludge. \\\ Peering […]