What I'm Looking ForWhat I'm looking for ( Read more... )

Failing and FlyingEveryone forgets that Icarus also flew ( Read more... )

Mars PoeticaImagine you're on Mars, looking at earth ( Read more... )

Saw You There"Carrie says I should make my connections into a poem." -- Dennis Etzel Jr ( Read more... )

Sea FeverI must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky ( Read more... )

Kingdom Animalia

When I get the call about my brother,
I'm on a stopped train leaving town
& the news packs into me -- freight --
though it's him on the other end
now, saying finefine--

Forfeit my eyes, I want to turn away
from the hair on the floor of his house
& how it got there Monday,
but my one heart falls
like a sad, fat persimmon
dropped by the hand of ( Read more... )

The Maenads

Somewhere I read
that when they finally staggered off the mountain
into some strange town, past drunk,
hoarse, half naked, blear-eyed,
blood dried under broken nails
and across young thighs,
but still jeering and joking, still trying
to dance, lurching and yelling, but falling
dead asleep by the market stalls,
sprawled helpless, flat out, then
( Read more... )

Paradise on Black Ice

Heaven hunts round for those that find itself below, and then it
snatches.
                           --- Emily Dickinson

I wind
the sheet of elegy

while he's still alive, I can't help it,
I follow his breath while he sleeps,

greet each coming and going,
with an Ave.
                  (Because of how
the quick
become the dead ( Read more... )

Untitled [Tracks carve through Florida florid wetlands]

Tracks carve through Florida florid wetlands
wilderness breaks down my estuarial intent
           he fell in love with the s-curve of her neck to spine
                                                                      simple
mathematics
                could explain the reappearance of other ( Read more... )

The Novel as Manuscript

-- an ars poetica

I remember the death, in Russia,
of postage stamps
like immense museum masterpieces
patchwork
wrapped in linen, tea stained,
with hemp for strapping...

these colored stamps designed for foreign places
were even printed during famine--
so when they vanished, so did the whole
Soviet ( Read more... )