Poetry
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Past Tense
Long before still images gathered into reels, / faked and raked movement across canvas screens, / before our minds grew magnetic, and we unfurled / how the unseen tether held Earth to...
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Kitchen, Vicarious
The summer that dolphins were found to have a self-concept, I housesat. / I read about them, turning before the glass, / ...
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Design Theory
Stencil your hand on the cave wall; / then come, let’s play cards. Mind the fire. / / We measure time with isotopes. Since 1950, anyway. / Before that, we faked...
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Dinner For One
She had a strained relationship / with appliances, circled like a satellite / / around the kitchen, a wary traveler. The toaster / singed her fingers, spit sparks into the...
Lean dream
I track the errant tides, irregular ebb and flow. / I open my mouth to suck / in water, I blow it back out, godlike, / salt residue on my lips. I...
Inheritance
Preparatory Glance / / Clouds gather as we ascend into quiet / smell shaken solitude form of forest, / Abbot Pass above a thinner waft / named for man dead, fallen, /...
Mosaics and Rain Laden Love Songs, or Journeys through the Broken World in Storms
One / (WINDOW: Castor and Pollux and the Lioness) / Secular and Gnostic at once. I didn’t know her, but we went out a set of doors at the same time and she...
Struggle Within
Crawling over and crawled over / busy with my hands and mouth / and legs too, really, looking one way / seeing another busy with his / hands, legs and mouth and...
Machines at Rust
Something really poetic is / machines rusting. / / Consider crushing them, / the implications of crushing them, / the impossibility of rehabilitation. / There is nothing to do regarding the...