a little rough, with some bad grammars |
The next time you meet someone who makes you want to brush your teeth a fourth time during the day,don't be shy to let them know you wish your skin could burst-ligaments and veins stretchlike firework... Posted by in lutero on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:31:00 PST |
something new |
At a restaurant in northern Italy a girl asked to run her palmacross the hair of his forearm,biting her lip as she waited for an answerknowing he wouldn't deny such simple eros.Her smooth, Mediterrane... Posted by in lutero on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:59:00 PST |
an old favorite |
Merwin's poem "Berryman" from Opening the Hand (1983):BerrymanI will tell you what he told mein the years just after the waras we then calledthe second world wardon't lose your arrogance yet he saidyo... Posted by in lutero on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:53:00 PST |
the beginning of the story, or why I can't write |
Part I. Expect Poison From The Standing WaterAt 86, the fact that you still have a prick is a kind of marvel. It retains, however, no hint of its august youthfulness, its exuberant libido. Two herni... Posted by in lutero on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:43:00 PST |
Li-Young Lee |
The WaitingNow between your eyesthe furrows shine,while your flushedoval face floatsabove the steamingbath water.Your shoulders roll, hipssway sideto side,legs stretch, rub together;you call this luxu... Posted by in lutero on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:20:00 PST |
amour propre |
i like feeling hungryand this isn't the only masochismof which i'm guiltylast nighti opened the refrigeratorknowing full wellthat there wasn't anything insidesave leftoversand a slew of condimentsno s... Posted by in lutero on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:45:00 PST |
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becauseI offer pigshitsomewhere close to where heaven and the Boweryoperate in collusionto mystify one reaching for some deified narcissismhe who many times promisingnot to look for thingswhere things... Posted by in lutero on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:47:00 PST |
work in progress, again |
But he didn't know her. He wouldn't have thought about trying to get to know her. That was too filmic, too much the movie plot. Life isn't like the movies, they say. No, it isn't. Movies are never tha... Posted by in lutero on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:15:00 PST |
Fragment from an Epic Poem I'm Writing |
Antebellum,the full moon behindand the lake before him,Ted Kressowski begins his pitchtossing gelem across his imageon the water and dreamsof Praguein the studio Sanford, Maineduring the dog days of s... Posted by in lutero on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST |
sharon olds, again |
The PromiseWith the second drink, at the restaurant,holding hands on the bare table,we are at it again, renewing our promiseto kill each other. You are drinking gin,night-blue juniper berrydissolving ... Posted by in lutero on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:49:00 PST |