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

    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