Animate Objects
Whose face changed.
Whose shoulder worn a groove.
Whose careful thought.
Whose cat a boy pharaoh on a blanket.
Whose father in rehab wears torn pants.
Whose mother...
The Hour is Enough
If open window—
Listen to holes
Beneath the rainIf closed door—
Enter the wound
As one enters a dream
Unseen Invisible
To yourselfThe who you are
welling...
Listening to Johnny Hodges’ “Texas Blues”
The notes nearly drip with humidity.It’s too hot, says Hodges’ alto sax,
to do anything but let yourself be bathedby...
An Angel Tries Petty Theft
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After the sky swallowed it’s tongue,
monarchs came out of hiding.
Black cats in...
Wedding Album, 1967
Posed stiff as the bride and groomon the fourth tier of the iced-white cake,you, trussed in a cummerbund beneath your black tails,brown...