glimpsed and gone |
Why Did the Kissing Start?Because of leavings: silt-drift, silicathat falls and turns to rock in us.Because we are foolish and will not last.Because in the murk of duskshe trilled to the bats in Ital... Posted by on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:22:00 GMT |
[Smiling past them] |
SalesMiguel might, if he speaks english, call the colorsof ukeleles stretching their necks from yardsof canvas duffel yoked across his shouldersaurora azul, cherry pop or mojito green,under the Pac He... Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:01:00 GMT |
[trying to heave itself back] |
WaitChop, hack, slash; chop, hack, slash; cleaver, boning knife, ax not even the clumsiest clod of a butcher could do this so crudely, time, as do you, dismember me, render me, leave me slop in a pai... Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:46:00 GMT |
[those contingencies intended] |
Man on the Moon
Hardly a feature in the evening skyAs yetnear the horizon the cold glowOf rose and mauve which, as you look on high,Deepens to Giotto's dream of indigo.
Hardly a star as yet. And then... Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:28:00 GMT |
[the quiet] |
Excuse for a Love Poem
It must have been the last drink that made me feel like this.A woman looking in a store windowstood the way you do;a man drove a truck with a childin his lap and somehow this to... Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:23:00 GMT |
[feverishly warm] |
On Wanting to Tell [] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
how her loose curls float above each silver fish as she leans in to pluck its eyes
You died just hours ago. Not suddenly, no. You'd been dying so... Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT |
[distinguishable, with practice] |
Stubbornly
For RLB
Pass by the showy rose, blabbing open, suckling a shiny beetle;
pass by the changeless diamond that falls asleep in shadow
this love is a lichen,
alga and fungus made one fleck,... Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:20:00 GMT |
[near though strange] |
Like the Back of My Hand
It was only that I noticed the jointsthe larger oneson my fingers, that they resembled knots in an old oak,and below them each hair a pinprick, the skin riddled like an old ... Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:02:00 GMT |
[the breath of an abandoned cave] |
Love Poem for Wednesday
You're the day after Tuesday, before eternity.You're the day we ran out of tomatoes and used tiny packets of ketchup instead.
You are salt, no salt, too much salt, a hangover.Y... Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:03:00 GMT |
[tomorrow will draw the dreamer] |
24/7
The one cashier is dozing head nodding, slack mouth open, above the cover girl spread out before her on the counter smiling up with indiscriminate forgiveness and compassion for everyone who isn... Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:44:00 GMT |