3,000 Turns Against Death
When Donne said Death, thou shalt die,he surrounded it with commas, breath
through the barrier, the first wardagainst the unbearable. Second: this
tongue...
Scheherazade Finishes
In 1,001 Arabian Nights, the storyteller fights for her life
by dreaming up cliffhanger after cliffhanger. She is
trying not to be loved. Each night,...
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
After Barnett Newman
Forget meaning for the Greeks
or cathedrals conceived as such;
where zips are light beams of mortals.
goes on till colour has nothing...
My Husband Holds Up a Pair of Mismatched Socks
I tell him not to worry, eventually they will match,one day finding one another again,
eventually the...
Tomorrow Times 3
Mensa means idiot in Mexican Spanish, an irony I learned from 28 sets of laughing, bilingual lips. My sophomore students would soon...
