Poetry

The khaki Humvee hits a bump / in the tarmac and the back / wheels blow off, the rims / scraping sparks as the whole / thing slews into sand and those...

In the monthly magazine, / you are bound for glory, / standing tall, antiquated, / your lean body / legendary, /  -a solemn note / of wood and wind… / anniversary time,...

This season, this month / you worry about papers, exams. / You analyze Wordsworth and Byron / and tell me this morning with a voice so solemn / that they both died...

Syringes crescendo incrementally. Segmental sound drift. Rostrum-gist shifts from leading edge to trailing. Feathers shed antithetically (molto molting melodeon). /   / Song of suction bellow and reed. Seven-process processional (one spinous,...

C2. Axis. Song cycle symphysis. The second cervical vertebra a pivot on which the air changes direction. Rotating wave /   / of Warblers. Palm Warbler’s 6-plume repetition. Yellow Warbler’s variable sweet-sweet-sweet....

Backward-fold  the  cervical  atlas.  The  spinal incunabulum articulates the isochronal loral line. Hollow bone archaeology. Canarygrass reed, elemental cannulae, transitional fossil thoracentesis (Pulmonarius lithographica). Cryptic /   / Archaeopteryx. Air-swindler. Non-bird bird. ...

Long after I have left / this room, I am still somewhere. / If not here, there. / If not there, where? /   / Later I see A. / on the...

You envy nothing. Not the firm riot / of trees casting closer / as boat pulls to shore. Not / shore. Not road. October’s /   / chroma wash blank / against...