Poetry
By Judge Alone
Don’t judge the way I jury-rigged the birdfeeder you hung years ago. Squirrels broke the line. I don’t trust you to climb up to fix it any more. / Don’t judge either...
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Simon and Vallier in the Tub
Finally, on page 60, Simon (clothed) jumps in after him / and the two lovers embrace. He has managed to speak / the word, arranged in a grammar / / that...
Landfill
Smokestack candlestick / Linden-handle check-wok / Fleece rocket, cheese cricket / Racket fleas, temple sock / / Onion beggar, blood-bling / Sling gum, trophy tongue / Grit orchid-scrapsong / Soldier slave,...
Transmission from Jupiter
I made it. Five years puffed like a lung / then collapsed. After so many kilometres, / I thought Callisto would be smiling. / Thought Europa’s beaches would have surf / ...
Blood in a Place I Could Not Yet Understand
It was harder to say no back when Paul / threatened to sue me after I told him / I couldn’t play GI Joe anymore beneath / the weevil-chewed spruce on the...
Semiotic Signs Approaching Winnipeg: General Sign Over Downtown (Now Outside It).
The hammer of judgement on the nails of practicality / evokes the tendency to miss the point of actuality / replacing it with exaggerated ambition of fiction / loather and lyncher of...
untethered
is it my blood that makes me wander? / the diaspora of my soul scattered / over many lands / the bones of my ancestors / how they pull...
The day dawns on and undoes us
The wet sand and sweat that mortared / our hands since dusk scorched / and mouldered to dust. Still / / sunlight can’t unlight / a candle once lit— it / ...
Gimli/Kanada
Og Brett, 3ju kynslóðar / Icelander, 6 ½ fet, 250 lbs / (höfuðið samsvarandi / tjúguskegg (rauðlitt) / undan fornmanninum / ESK / var sá fyrsti (Br.) sem ég / ræddi við...