Poetry
Answers to Wittgenstein’s Seven Propositions
What is the case? / Small infractions. Bent brier, turned leaf: / integers opening the whole / a trail through the bushes. / / What are the atomic facts? / The...
Less
It’s a morning of razor-cut tissue wrap over the ridges. It’s breakfast by touch, molar-pinching coffee. It’s hot water enough to shave one leg. It’s drizzle,the bullock-brow dawn, stray razor bristles and...
Frigidarium
Navy blue in the hall. / Five and five doors / and blue navy rising, / rising under the underslots. / Five and five doors to ten rooms, / each with a...
South
Grand Forks, Fargo, any North Dakota town with a Super8 / and a Target. To be out of your mind was really to be / out of your body. Feeling it the...
Field Test
Twenty years measuring / strangers’ eyes, entire fields / of vision. Despair and happiness / / look the same in the iris: / synaptic blue roots, wired / cross-attachments. / ...
Poem 39 – A tongue listens to a war
Driven out of Lebanon warm air opens the lines / Slow moving vowels grip glottal, we pucker / Hiss of splayed gullets marks the gaps / Their right legs slightly forward and...
The Angle of Repose
Unlike the western slopes and save for the Thompson River, / the northernmost edge of the Cascade Mountain Range / is dry and compulsive. You climb through Engelmann Spruce / and Ponderosa...
Cockatoos
Yes, we've heard their sad repetitions, / the 'pieces of eight', the rote 'Pretty boys', / dropped from tired beaks like peanut shells; / birds bored far beyond the thinning bone. /...
Breast Reduction
Beep beep beep beep the regular heart beat. / Whoosh, ventilator for every breath. / Acrid smelling blue paper drapes cover her face and head like an / umbrella, / Lay along...