"Catechism of the Thicket"

What a paradox this art!
Like the apple afraid of the tree, pleading
for its tin-held life as pie,
sugary warm; but how plea the seeds
when they fall naked to the earth
(apple orchards and garbage dumps)
shed of their rotten girth?What brought her here, this seed ( Read more... )

In Bed

My wife beside me, wrapped in the sleep

of steadfast walls,

Dog at my feet, chewing dreams

of rawhide bone,

Me, on my back, blowing smoke

toward the empty ceiling.

References to Oedipal Complexes:

While on the phone with my mom,
fiancée calls, the voice message
says, “Hang up!
quit your affair.”

A boy at school calls
his elder crush
‘mother’.

“In a Station of the Metro”
  by Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

“In a Classroom of Knobview Hall”

by Ian Uriel Girdley

The consternation on these faces reading Pound;

Field mice before the farmer’s plow.

The Engagement

Two trees grew too close to one another

leaves tickled in the breeze, flirting with a twig

like a feather duster tease across naked shoulders,

intertwined as their branches grew together

toward that same evening sun, Siamese lovers

opening their skin and conjoining flesh

as  seeds spiral toward the ground popping

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or anywhere else in the country if you are willing to drive,

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We adopted a dog yesterday. We named him Rufus. He is well behaved and very friendly to people, kids, cats, and dogs. He is not friendly to bugs, however. He will chase them down them chomp them into oblivion. He also likes to carry around and chew on sticks or bones, but will not, as of yet, fetch them. Thought some of my friends would want ( Read more... )

I threw the ball in sunny backyard ( Read more... )

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Just a reminder: Tomorrow (Wednesday, May 28) don't miss spoken word by Donnie Darkhorse (New Haven, Connecticut) with music background produced by Poet of Pain, poetry by Sheri Wright (Louisville), and original music by Russ Allen (Louisville) at Perkfection Cafe (just across the river from Louisville at 359 Spring Street, Jeffersonville, IN) at ( Read more... )