Poetry
racemic interludes
and you / opening after to my / opening also / / your mouth / breaks in less words, more life forms / a wave or / one look before the...
in the room of quartz
And in the room of quartz blooms / / nothingness which is a cemetery of crows / / each bearing a bright yellow something / / in his beak...
two swimmers, belloram
There is a song for the dead / and the drowned / the tune of which I can’t remember, / so many seasons from the sea. / Though there was a time...
my mother’s waltz
Crouched in the stairwell / cloaked in shadows / I watch my mother / in the kitchen / waltz / / Her faded housecoat / cinched tight / around soft waist...
shift
the river drew me to her— / / sent her butterfly scouts / to beckon me / down / / fir and pine / became birch / / silver...
playground
Egg tempera on pressed wood panel, 1948 / / A compound flagged by concrete, cracks unadorned / By blades of grass straggling into the light pouring in / / Between...
book buff
Egg tempera on gesso panel, 1994 / / Taut prose stripped bare / / His skin stretched by time, the relaxed lines / Of muscle underneath still / Firm as...
blue sperm whale
His patient brings in a dream, / to infiltrate his own: / I’m about five, I’m on a windy beach / dragging at the sand with my hands, / when suddenly, I...
translating passion: after marking too many english 1000 papers
I. / It has nothing to do with language—their papers fracture syntax, / dangle over the railing of incomprehension. Their logic is / a dog chasing its own tail round and round...