Category: Poetry

my father didn’t believe and didn’t wait for holy intercession. He mislaid his gloves faster than his temper. He wasn’t
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New bracken unfurls Sea-horse fronds born in grass Gnarled Ent shadows whorl Busy silence pulses past Sea-horse fronds born in grass Solitary
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I hate lace curtains and their contortionist ways. Their holes deforming like Munch’s scream at the slightest tug— underdogs in
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--on the painting by Van Gogh The sunflowers grow taller this year. They nearly touch the sun. I climb a
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It's the day before the day before. The sky is still blue. Which vessel for the DNA – lightship or
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I will be sad for a moment because she used words like “quotidian”—and “it’s ok to discuss your $900 compressor
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Everything you’d want in a dance partner was there in Betsy’s basement, Friday night girl party, stereo blasting the Everly
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in memory of my brother, Richard We piled into your burgundy ’48 Chrysler each October, our fall pilgrimage to the
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As a boy I had no idea what to do with my hands. At Camp Hastings YMCA camp, where the
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https://arkencounter.com/ Kentucky's 510 ft. Ark Encounter. Pine, not the customary gopher wood. $40 adult/day. Unlimited 7 day combo $99, zip
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Australians battled the flood until a bird with a leaf in its mouth showed them the way to Mt. Broome.
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Six months later, when your period returned to an empty house, curtains drawn, I bought an ovulation test; you were
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In Tanzania, a thesaurus of birds perch stiffly, petrified by the alkaline slime of Lake Natron. These avian stones, these
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His phrase “starry lice” just stopped me cold. My lice looked coal-black or, if contemplated in damp fluorescence, tick-like in
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Fear equals fear plus the square root of consequences divided by time alone. That’s before factoring in imaginary numbers for
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Our dormant crabs skipNor'easters. Whole bushelsplay hooky under estuaries.Hunker us down, Mister Savory.  Follow obeliskedbellies beneath silt andsediment, only antennae
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Home from the produce section with scaly hides of Jackfruit, the host had snubbed the Honey Crisps that flashed waxed
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after Fernand Léger's painting Animated Landscape Even in modern cities,where the buildings overlapwith metal-tinted façades,there's always space to rest and
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Even though my dad’s distant relative –mine, too, of course – was buried in the only Jewish military cemetery in the world,
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Puberty’s passé when a gila out-dappers your scene, ball python flubbing a bearded dragon’s take. You should see how I
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Marry that man mama says so I say soon as he gets outta prison mama, then mama goes and pulls
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Father’s nasty-proud, Mother’s vain,Sonny’s an alcoholic, and Sis is a flirtwho teases the chauffeur. She’s long engagedto a weak-chinned junior
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Those who have died—their roots still spread,their fires still spread, smoking underground. They emerge as tree roots will, bursting out
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Like livestock, we walk the steel maze to our impersonal deaths, admit design is a murderer; there is no exit
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The sidewalk is sterilized white.I could eat off its sunlight.People creep along it like spiders who could shrink in the
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Down to the rotting forest floor, little shocks of sun, panty-pink, slip below crowns of simple-leaved trees. Green ousts peach,
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Maybe I am not very human. What I wantedwas to paint sunlight on the side of a house. —Edward Hopper
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Elegant scraps of blue satin,channels meander through meadows,In the shadows, violet spills into pools.           The redwing
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Always I overhear the overbearing neighbors fail to wince where I would fall back on my store of tiptoe. Radical
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How strange to have come all this wayon the path toward perfect ignorance& to have stopped here, a man alone
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The alchemist experiments and repeats. See his bench: alembics and crucibles, tubes and mortars, bottles of alum, cassia, aconite and
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It has to be Johnny Hartmanwith Trane framing thatvoice that flows smoothand rich like a riverof barrel proof bourbonrippling with
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