Category: Poetry

Singular Fragments of Incarnation No. 2

Baristas set things in order / — clear surfaces / — clean windows / — near to closing time / — squeaky squeaky squeaky / — an item falls / — and Pink Pony Club / — — comes on the stereo / Singular Fragments of Incarnation / — sound of squirt bottle / — […]

Only If Cat

Happily they went about theirbusiness. Each one took theothers to hand, and told themin turn: “This above That,but only when Other. Notbetween Who, but only ifSad. When without Whistlesbut lightly with Care. Somebefore They and onlyif Wise. Trouble not Takenbut Weathered and Weasely.Some are for Bubbles and_________________________ only if Cat. This was the first postcard […]

A Typology of Voids

[…] the hypothesized taste of words left unspoken, the clear light of Buddhism, the mass dimension of those mega trillions of photons, & the lack of mice in unset traps.

In aping the rhetoric of others, one accrues signifiers one never intended, while by following the feet before you, […]

Singular Fragments of Incarnation

One hour at the libraryOne time brushing teeth before the mirrorOne page of one bookA fruit fly’s brief life“A blade of grass /A grain of sand /A moonlit sea /I’ll hold your hand”One moment of eye contactSingular fragments of incarnationKnowable to any personSplit from their contextsDescribed with one referenceOne long row of booksOne reclining womanOne […]

Across the Interpersonal Chasm

[…] limitations between our understanding of one another; no one may know what kinds of conversations we have within, insofar as we even notice them — beyond and above, beneath and below, the biochemistry variance is infinite yet each one echoes each other infinitely across the interpersonal chasm. […]

Night Notes

“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]

Staircase

Original publication date 11/21/2015. It’s quite brilliant and I don’t remember writing it at all, but it escaped my 2020 purge and someone looked it up today and I reread it and said yes. The streaking of the red dogs. The wild dogs, the feral dogs. The chanting of the mice. The lift into the […]

Dissolving Thoughts

First draft posted 6/19/2017 Technically speaking, the scatter of papers represents entropy, while the persistence of furniture represents illusions of permanence. There is no persistence of the construct of self, at best, a standing wave, yet we all act ‘as if’ it were so, and in time the elements wear on it. Meanwhile, in their […]

Timewise

1st draft written and published January 30, 2017. Expected to rewrite it a lot but didn’t change much. The last two lines are new. For Nextdoor syndication where it doesnt add the headline or featured image, this is a poem called ‘Timewise’. Click the link thou lazy critics. Those memories countless of innumerable days—idle-Lost in […]