POETRY

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
—Rita Dove
Electric Eels, Finishing School, Teeth

Millions of Americans have been affected by identity theft. It’s probably the greenhouse gases.

Willpower

Live the rest of your life
from one worst case to another.

Good Driver

Lights on the dashboard spell out
“You still can’t kiss me”

The love of my life moved from portland to new england

He has stories that I am not in
anymore. It’s healed this way.

Clotheslines

Ma wrings
a wet world
of colors

The Kotel in Jerusalem is Filled with Cracks

We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…

First

Long after midnight, we’re talking about our first time

Pit Stop in Kansas

we drove on through
the blue seal of morning as the turbines
turned and winked out their hearts

oh Manifesto

The collective
failure
of ethical standards

[Zoetrope with Particulates in it and a Newborn]

and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud

A Way of Seeing

Just starlight and some small scribbling across vinyl.

Welcome To The House of Static

here is the sky in stop motion, flickering,
a still shot in monochrome

There is an alternative universe

Ghosts for hire, whispers in her mouth,
cysts to feel, the symmetry of a gift.

Making Israeli Salad

Now that the Israeli has left, it falls
on me to make the salad.

if detritus is all i’m made up of

my love is a glass shard, a knife made of madness and moonlight,
and there are already way too many fragments in this house

appetites

you quit wearing pants
loaf around your yard
in hole-nipped panties

beach
On Undressing a Color / On Undressing a Girl

I imagine that undressing a color, though, would be so much like peeling a memory away from the grey and the white matter of your brain.

Soft Porn and Cuban Pine

It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.