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I did not hear the raincascading through the dreamI had of you last night:a boat beached on the shore,I followed the footstepsalong the edge of the ti..
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I write about you
simply because
I can't think of any reason not to.
Not the most romantic
of pretexts
I admit, but still
I write about ..
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“O' dear Vicar, how rue you this fine
morn?
Well and loved, all free of sun-slept
regrets?”
From your mouth, the sweetest scent
o..
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"on reading Primo Levi's Reveille, and thinking of the 1973 movie Massacre in Rome"
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The dead stems of a summer's roses
still standing in the low light of an
October
eve's fast falling, remind me
of the approaching reckoning ..
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My youngest brother calls the mother of
his babes, Mommy.
An oddity
I consider in light
of his own Mother
being six feet
across the room
..
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Emptiness: all
for nothing and nothing for all
the rhetoric of wanting
a beginning: what
bits we've mastered
on standing upright
seem rather sen..
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something happened here
once before
the slow suck of progression
erased all memory of
time then when
we labored with
sticks and stones
th..
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This deal, raw intentions so
harshly tendered, I expect
will not hold through a winter's
discontent. Come spring,
with the lilacs in bloo..
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I watch my house shift
to the wealthier
side of the tracks,
dolled up
for fancier folks,
a new spruce
hedge, coat of paint,
crimson red..
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