Poetry

  • ‘it’s lonely in here’

    it’s lonely in here loneliness is hard            it’s frightening to think one might always be alone. One      be alone forever there are the window sounds      wall sounds            neighbors how can we be close together      and not in one another’s arms?            the lucky people who have found lovers grow spoiled & demanding

  • A Ten-Minute Walk

    no wrong but to harm others? *     *      * what harms others? *     *      * there is nothing but your (my) naked being. anyone can put his hand on my cock or her tongue up my ass. *     *      * if it feels good, it is good? it might feel good to crack someone’s sky. *     *      * then…

  • Settlers

    We were learning How to live Out here, Out of nothing. Our claim On this raw country Was simply having Nowhere else to go. We found These lands Could destroy The nerves we lived on: The sick ironic harmonica Playing on the fire at night. The immensity of those nights. The tired roseate Spectacular That…

  • Old French Fables

    1. A loutish lummox lay a-dozing, Flat on his face, his arse exposing Unto the sun, with cheeks spread wide; When lo! a beetle crawled inside The grandly gaping aperture. Needless to say, the brutish boor Awoke at once, in pain, and hied him Straight to the doctor, who, to chide him Told him he…

  • Mahler

    It is Because I am Obsessed with This thing. . . . It overtakes me. Do I conjure it Out of space, Scratching its Sound on paper In the tilted gazebo? I only know I Do hear it — there. I am brushed by The precise flit Of its shadow, Enervated by Each visitation. Like…

  • Poem on a Surface

    We trace ourselves in order to omit the tracery tense unfolding a flesh offering a limit We travel the ellipse of ourselves each inhabited One inside the other limitless warm surface & not wanting knowing the limit tracing the arrival We come together One orb One & One We fold together unfolding rhythm of our…