POETRY

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
—Rita Dove
Vase

The storm passes without snow.
The car waits loyally in the back lot.

Drowning in sky

I have observed, the theorist
I am

REVENGE SCENE

Okay, picture this: We’re in an elevator. The elevator shuts down. It doesn’t matter where we’re going, only that we’re alone.

Dear Deer in the Compost Pile

I tap at the alphabet while a single deer
taps at the dirt beyond the brush
on the far side of the tree line.

An Endeavor of Being Now

We stop doing dishes while
a mile unwinds
from the tree outside.

Finding My Fix

I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.

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.

My Multiverses

It is the 70s. 1970s? 2570s? Who knows?
Audre and I have a penthouse in New York.

First

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

Sprung (April)

I like to think I’m also sprung,
released from the furnace knocks,
done with the heavy meat stews
and salty soups.

Hollywood Hills
the remarkable thing

I am still waiting for the lion

The Kotel in Jerusalem is Filled with Cracks

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

Pit Stop in Kansas

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

Aging Punks

Every so often, they add a tattoo
in honor of some long-forgotten love.

love poem with dead leaves & color

I would always rather be happy than
dignified. Rather held than held
in awe.

Condolences

my friends’ fathers are
dropping
I mean dying
like flies

Clotheslines

Ma wrings
a wet world
of colors

melting ice cap
blue is the color of surrender

you know that
baby swallows make silver ripples
in wild rivers to court reeds?

things they won’t tell you but should:

love is a soggy tea stain on a grocery receipt

Tea

my father holds
his favorite drink