Poetry
Every Night of Our Lives
i. / / In dreams / houses are ends / of sad tales; a lantern’s / glint in a parched land. The first touch / of rain. / / ii....
Eye-Saddle
A girl who loved horses and poetry / once told me there are tricks you can do / on the eye-saddle of time—remembering, / for example, slows the animal down, / while...
Carve out the Eyehole
I kiss that cold space on your cheek, / a corner of light. I am on top / so it feels like I have the dick. / Feels good, right? / Waves...
Elegy for My Father’s Labour
Hardhat ∴ life preserver / Wrench ≈ bouquet / Number of days present < early morning disappearances / Length of visits with children ÷ reciting of letters from home / Approximate value...
Mind Control
A woman in pain will forget / to be kind, or clean. She will probe / the folds and ripples of her / cerebrum, she will feel / her brain floating like...
Tunnel
Inertia drags its feet. To be requires sweat. / We come out sluggish as slippers. / / It takes effort to scrape the ice off the windshield / of morning, to...
Spin Cycle, Cowley
Some desert John, locust-boned, / leans in the doorway, / / chamber-eyed laundrette / behind, chewing over / / the same thread husk. / He’s a coal / /...
Alterations of Every Description
Promises the sign over a tailor’s shop / but presumably sex changes, metamorphoses, translations & -figurations / / are excluded, including / having the life stabbed out of you, nothing alters...
Object #6
the centre. the image that holds. her figure. / ...