Next door a rooster inscribes his cry on the living cosmos.   Overnight my hair has become a nest of aluminum foil   to short..

“In this big world of adults, observing with my big round eyes, Mum said we are bound by love and friendship and live together as..

Soap dissolves molecule by molecule, runnels toward   the drain and disappearance. The skin is core, outer the inner,   so only the shrinking, —rounding,..

Our lives race feebly in all directions. A frozen piece of land at the bottom of the earth… “I seem to hold in reserve something..

Look how Mercury dapples the sky & Daphne’s house Faces north; there is nothing to say about the light Except it reaches beyond the heavens..

The old narrow wooden streets of claustrophobia with market traders of differing size and health are adjoined by newer streets of many young gazers arrested..

“In Monterey the squid they say is tender as baloney. But here I’ll pound a little round of tough old abalone.” George Sterling was Bohemian,..

I cannot reach you…   If the waves would rise on the first day of September a Prince of Venice will depart down the sea..

I only want to know your name. there is a drizzle of homemade jam on this memory i think i have, like a hug under..

(1) On Rogation Sunday in a field in Kent The flowing blessing is presently underway. And in a building too shy to hold a woman..

Scour-faced, jet-lagged, fresh from the airport, they plod up the tower’s steps  and stare across to the Old Man of Storr’s sky-pointing finger.   And..

I. She relates to me that a race vet in Kaltag has misplaced a glove, gone gloveless and at forty below developed frostbite. This year,..

It has become mechanistic at this point. I placed the blade in your larynx. I have grown tired of your voice. Your speech isn’t free...

They were trying to catch my eye as I hurried past an old tree, the abandoned pencil factory, and what was rumored to be a..

Here beneath the hems of evergreen, beside the weathered shed where sunlight doesn’t reach, the housewife squints and takes it all in until she sees..

At 23 let us count the things We have lost to the fire: We entered the Corporate We skipped the breakfast On Monday mornings We..

Heavy snowfall at a military base, in a scorching Naples in August: where the Austrias, and after them the Borbons, and much later Maradona, and..

No trial, truth murdered in cold blood, an innocent man slain.  Kannagi stormed the palace in rage, the woman’s wrath unrestrained  At the palace the diamonds spilled forth..

Addah Belle’s pocket watch stands openon my desk like a sandwich boardadvertisement.I want to shrink down and crawl under it,camping in my ticking tent. Constellationsand..

I pressed “performance poetry” into YouTube’s search box kept company by a simplified magnifying glass on the right (in its own light-grey box): a type..

Over coffee, you tell me that it settles in your lungs way better than in your stomach. You tell me about those long drives when..

Black; The colour of my hair that you ran your fingers through And clutched and pulled back and Gasp; As our legs twirled under sheets..