Poetry
Topiary
Between hedgerows your mind’s / fox slows its feet, stills the thistled / fleece it tows behind. / / Fleece or flag unwound — / a warning draped to fall /...
The Sorrows of the Ladybird Beetle
Her pain is shown / against the head of a match / for scale. / / She vanishes in cold seasons: diapause. / / Named in the middle ages, /...
Space
Space is not neutral. / It depends on who inhabits it / & how. / Here, it’s imbued with impulse. / It breathes. / It is wooded with dark creatures — / though...
Old Crow
The Porcupine caribou took a dive / a quill’s breadth above the 66th / / just as the lake disappeared / ...
Apartment K
He used a fire escape to walk out of your life. / / Back inside, the floors are polished, / the heartbreak is clean. / / You sit with a...
349
It is ivory, or marble — / Some blinding material else, / Some godbone out of the / Shadow of a singularity — / / It is fulminant, impossible, / Cleaving the water...
Heaven
My father enters heaven, / smiling his big smile, the one that could have signaled pain. / Let’s get you hooked up, they say. The place buzzes with sexy uniforms. / Dialysis...
Waking
The clock falls back and the cat / doesn’t give a damn about the hour. / She howls at five and five-ten; she howls again / at five-twenty and six. She knows...
Religious Studies
for Carl Ridd, 1929 – 2003 / / His orange sweater damaged your hearing / it was that loud. Outside the / diesel of Greyhound buses and plebes / too poor to fly....