A term given to us by Franz Gall, fatherof phrenology, the lost art of God’s failure to erase each ridge and bump from your skull.For which Gall invented his method to codify God’s errors: a bumpfor adventurers and a bump for homebodies. A bump for the vicious and a bumpfor the kind. Before you were…
Lugging a corpse with you everywhere you went.Strapped to your back.Slumped in a wheelchair.Dragged on a sled or pulled in a red wagon.The corpse keeping you focused on your mortality.Reminding you that ultimately you’re just a corpse. At first it was a fringe thing.Hipsters only.Then celebrities got involved.Hauling their corpses to the Oscars and whatnot.Corpses…
for C.P. What to do with all this flame but douse itwith paper cupfuls of red and yellow pills.What to do with the sun that licks its rose blazein the tiled corners of this ward, with the hours,with the burden of relief we’re allowed to feel.We still breathe. We still walk the hallsin our spoiled…
He said he would hang himselfso as not to make a mess. But he was still there the next day.And the next. And the next. He wrote the note for the copson a page he tore from my favorite book of poems. That’s all I saw of it—in absence—the ripped-out page like a jagged fin…
I don’t remember wearing itto school or after dark to the Halloween partywhere apples for bobbing floated in tubs.I don’t remember staring in the mirror to admiremyself in the half- mask, white blouse and blackskirt, the fabled red hood gaudy with sequins.My father paid for my first store-bought costume. Whochose? Why her? There are no…
Three days after my chemo infusion,the hospital Chapel’s framed inspirational wordswishing us well in moving forward,I send myself flying with frozen lips and bad ski equipment,arms and legs draggingagainst the winter’s cold molecules—no longer regretting the frilly white gift saved from the affair in Vaduzthat I wore during confessionunder my street-length blackskirt, feeling its lusty…
“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers…
In this poem someone has taken the edgeof one hand & swept the crumbsfrom the counter.In this poem we savewhat falls & Jesus speaks lightly,a breeze carrying the river’s scent.And all the day & night of this poema face asks what’s leftafter science, after the black & whitemovies, the forties camel hair coat, the nothing…
Write a poem about the sounds the ice makesend of winter, my father says. I could say grinds like slow gears.I could say moans and grieves, crackslike a gun in the night but holds,and I would not be wrong. There’s a remedy for winter called the tilting of the earth.It is not a sign of…
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