Poetry
Prayer for a New Song
Here in this narrow seat / with a god’s eye view / from the belly of unfathomable / mechanics, 36 077 feet / from the Earth, I want only to grace /...
We See Here, He Said,
only one soldier on the porch, and only for a moment. / Army is a visiting ferris wheel, he whispered. A carousel. / / The carousel’s accordion-clefted orbit arrives regardless of...
Bad Help
On Marley’s wall in ’64 hung Melba Ogle, / center-fold. Bad help is a turn-off she said. / / Bob said ’scuse me to the girl in his bed, / There’s...
Some Brother Me
Kicking at the dirt of the dirt sidewalk; / Pulling my sister along by the hand. / / Old Johnny Devoe has dumped his bucket / Across the road. “Don’t look...
Silver birch gone gold
and ravens everywhere. / / Each glimpse of wing a cue — / there is work to complete: / / pacts to bind and wind / to read. Ciphered tongues /...
De-Listed
housecat on couch is not / being poached, aphrodisiac-ed / to extinction, is not lapping / last water from last pools, / reflections / / dog barking neighborhood is not /...
Sonnet for Winding Late Clocks
Past noon and I find too late light has made / a dial of shadow before me. Thoughts / poised, mid-strike. An algorithmic delay / of traffic angled in vectors but not...
Therapy
Handwriting your autobiography on tinfoil with a feather pen in aquamarine foam ink. Diagnosis always / / Subtle — answer a multiple choice test. Do you grab objects from other people? ADD. Does your /...
Perfect
When I am fourteen, my father will quit / his job and sell our home. He will use the money / to start a sign-making business. He will start / by buying...