Poetry
Thermodynamics
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. / A body at rest tends to stay at rest, a badger / wintering beneath the porch. A body in motion / tends to stay...
He Used it to Button the Jacket
the day my stepfather cut his thumb / off, he walked into the garden / where my mother was dead-heading the Little Lulus / asked her to help him find it in...
the animals dream (1)
“What do geese dream of? / Of maize.” / -Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams / / inside his salty shelter the badger smells himself. / he is the entombed pharaoh...
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If we stand together beside the lake…
If we stand together beside the lake / on a spring afternoon, the breeze / will hold out its many cool hands / to greet us. And if we lie / down,...
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Dog-star on the brain
Barometric saraband: triple-time dance of the thermometer, heat / palpitations. / You fumble for meaning in sweat & inevitability; damp sheets, / inexhaustible sheep & sleep / is a backwards counting of...
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Scenes from a Spiteful Business
I. Pressure / / start in midair, say, on a plane / the change in your ears as you descend–the pressure–is the / weight of the air it is laid out...
under the sun
Rain is the merging of cool air with warm / under general conditions of humidity. Try to remember / it has nothing to do with love / or grief. This is the...