AGE OF WAITING Crows rasp and wrestle for a scrap of kill discarded at the curb: carcass dropped from the claws of a passing gull. Each beak pecks out its…
Category: Poems
UGANDA 1972 A once promising land—evaporating. The people abolished, divided and shaken by the expulsion, the elimination. The threat of an ethnic cleansing of the Indian minority hovered over Asian…
EXCERPTS FROM A THIN LINE BETWEEN it wasn’t intended for me to see but I did (in the subject of an email) the invisible mom on a hill in…
CHERISH: A CENTO Dear friend, you have excited crowds with your example.1 I speak to judge crimes of filiation.2 Consider that the thing died before we ever proved it lived,3…
PROFESSOR’S LAST STAND Don’t believe I’m here: I’ve packed, gone without a trace somewhere north of north, or I’m lying in the oily arms of the richest woman…
COLOMBIANA 1. (noun.) The CGI favelas superimposed upon the intricate-lit sheen of Zoe Saldana’s left tricep as she nuzzles a handgun between praying hands, barrel kissing her brow as…
SELF PORTRAIT IN FUR The bear says to the gathered performance artists who are attempting a sound poem that emulates the sounds of a bear I never know when it’s…
THE DOXA OF THE WIND The dust is biting the leaves. A chrysanthemum is blooming in a salty dry swamp. Sécheresse is everywhere. I’m searching for a mystery amidst the…
THIS DON JUAN FISHBOWL to reach and stop. to want and keep going. to want to reach the limit. to want to take and justify the taking. to reach the…
ON ROLLING THE DICE I tried to explain non-sequitur username perfect punch line a secret combination what’s the point of baited wish down at the avatar hall? tight cued lemon…
INTRODUCTION TO HOMELESSNESS _____“The point is that fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life.” _________________________________________– Bill Cunningham Bare feet in old running shoes, a tattered cape…