Poetry
Photo of a Family Vacation [1967]
He is a blade slipping on the skin of a trout. / He is a blade and he is slipping and he is a trout. / Skirting the shallows, the screen of...
Song of a Summer
Half-life / of a half-crushed wasp: writhing / and whiptailed. / * / Mr. Venom-Sac / knocked splat. / Dregs of legs. / * / Nailed, mosquito / stigmata. / * /...
My Lone Ranger
my lone ranger / would have a speech impediment / / for example / / He would say haltingly: / Tonto / Me want know why / Me talk like...
Dream Sonnet 3: Mother, Crater Lake
She contemplates her mirror-self, dead still / the afternoon air. No grasshoppers sing. / Lake limpid, a bowl of blue glass, a womb / too cold to swim. Volcano collapsed. / On...
reality wayfarers
you know the story / how the narrative shifts / anticipates departure / like sealing wax / or the broken logic of punishment / / the last train gone past /...
On the Cusp of Spring
It’s been years now since you drifted / into the silence years since you dug / a bed in the snow for us / since we lay down your tail over your...
grace period
noon / open eyes / skin parallel to / trembling spine / pillow awash in nightmare & /...
Mirage in the Mire
Baptism in the river will be followed by a wet t-shirt contest. I walk a hot trail of dried peach stones. It is 33 degrees Celsius. I envy the church group standing...
Half-Macedonian
Here’s the Eastern Orthodox Church, Community Centre / and Rec Hall. Your mom ate here / in the days before cable, / in nettles of rayon, at her cousins’ weddings. / ...