Poems
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Taking It Apart
First they took the tonsils. Then the appendix & that extra tooth. Then they straightened my eyes & blinded me with light. Next an ovary, then the other & the uterus & the cervix. Finally the gallbladder. Then they rebuilt the knee. No knives have been at me for years, but if… Continue reading
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you must depend upon
the solid ground though it’s been known to shudder to open without warning into great rifts to offer sudden sinkholes & eruptions of fire daydreams, nightdreams, the tenuous braid of imagination history as written between the stars the upside-down lies your eyes tell you, day after day the sky, its blue… Continue reading
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metaphor
every day thousands of humans and other creatures die by bomb, bayonet, starvation every day women are raped and mutilated children beaten and abandoned every day humans push buttons pull triggers sign papers that result in the deaths of uncounted hundreds of thousands every day we humans close our eyes and… Continue reading
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there is no good news
this room this bright quilt winter waits on the other side of these dark windows elsewhere cities in dust and rubble everywhere cities on fire all this has nothing to do with me the naked child running through fire has nothing to do with me these buildings become dust have nothing to do… Continue reading
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Neighborhood Mid-October
I hear the sweet voice of a young woman making love. “Oh!” she says, “Oh!” The birch trees tremble with sparrows. Yellow leaves and seed husks flicker to the ground. Dragon-Cat leaps to the porch bannister. He sits, staring at the window, waiting to be noticed. Two squirrels have sex in… Continue reading
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