He broke my spine down the middle,folded me between vertebraelike a grocery listand carried me to the mountaintopwhere the ground is too hard to dig...

America’s coast is ragged at the bottomYou know this from maps, of courseBut you don’t know it until you fly down into Louisianaon a late..

i walk into the lake and die therethe search team drags nothingbut water to the shore i was just a kid after alland my blood..

Born between rivers, you are infinitelycultivated. Sand backwashed from the ocean. Good silt down from the plains. Fermented in Disneyworld bacteria, embryos fasciculate  in polluted foam...

Afterward, I weep into the mole It waits, in shadows of your wrist I smoothen it, lingering my teeth

I remember the air we lived in;the color of hyper, aqueous thin and glinting lifebut shake the razor globe, upend itand we were jim-jammed, shaky,unfounded,..

At 3AM sometimes I found the man sittingbleached in the light from the forecast on TV.There are no names for colors, he said,the first time..

Let heaven be a tune that belongs            to an eighteen-year-old boy who has never                        had his own room—until now.  He doesn’t even know himself well..

Sipping teain front of Sephora,with my husband,the third one. I watch the girls from the cosmetic counterhuddle together, dressed in black smocks,full painted lips, coal-colored..

White lost its virginitywhen I saw throughcherry eyes.The hoar turned to flame,my portrait, a whore.Who are you whogathers the hollyhockin your secret harem,seducing them,petal from..

ted hughes arrived at my front door with an apology and a box of chocolates /dark chocolate melting over marzipan / he remembered my favorites..

He loved the body of his woman.Harmonicas and mandolins playedIn the sense of wonder in his mind. At the end sudden winds blewThrough the plans..

It is somewhat amazing to me. There can be so much to overlookand so much more to look over. I read Robert Haas speaking of..

Who never embraced worldwide fameand sabotaged his health to cope andwas possibly wary of so-called fans who could turn on him when they did notget..

The body applies order.Count the tiles so your Mother doesn’t die.Vultures ate our lands but couldn’t fly. Kneel, said the fatherSay their names nine times, then..

The music of Johor Bahru     is sitar strings          plying breezesoff the South China Sea,     fanning jasmine and lemongrass          across verandas. The music of Johor Bahru    ..

          So the new thinking now within the scientific           community about the way genes and  ..

uranium rattlesnake whiskeywhatever morris has lying aroundhe loads into his army issue surplus duffelhe tosses into the backseatof his used sedanand lurches across interstate 80away..

   iridescent & indecent, the mississippi river reaches  towards me like a lonely woman,  first, she asks me what my mother never has  for my..

Some days are nighthighways left to usto steer the starebetween reflective lines,coffee in one hand, a radioin one ear calling Willie“classic rock.” Say what!?Some days..

My father built the house with rocks; my mother threw them.  Snow came through the holes she made.  She watched us freeze.