Poetry
arrival
Here is no destination, / but the hazy finale of a hasty departure. / My half-baked attempt / to escape a conspiracy of / normalcy; drift for a time / on the...
elle, vertige
elle, vertige prise au sternum / / déboulements avachis à l’intermède de la / / conscience à même la rosée des promesses /...
flotilla
I’m beginning to worry the bay is nothing but the night. / / I know how darkness checks a wind. / Letting only moonlight pool and spread / Like the negative...
innocence
a pantoum / / We stain the vision with what we think we know. / I remember myself as a child, touching roses / On the other side of the street...
the golden hour
The sun isn’t going to kill me as / I walk down the boundary road in 1963, / / kick stones, dust rises, the light shifts / around my busy feet....
tehuana brides
Self Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943 and Self Portrait, 1948. / / Two self-portraits in elaborate Tehuana headdress / Two disembodied faces. Frida’s famous / penetrating gaze, dark eyebrows, faint moustache...
all the crazy boys
All the crazy boys know my name. / They seek me out in crowds, / at subway stations. / They leave bouquets of wildflowers / at my doorstep. / I don’t know...
bobcat
July 4, 2006 / / the men from the funeral home could use a smoke / as they pace discreetly in fading light, / forty miles from supper, minister long gone,...
airborne
(the paratrooper) / / Those who have leaped before him know / that to carry out this job faithfully, the jumper / has to have been granted a good parachute. /...