Monthly Archives: October 2009
Illumination Night
Summer ignites itself Methodist style. Japanese paper lanterns Noguchi might have made for Martha Graham’s last dance alight the campgrounds, set the island aglow in pinks, oranges, yellows, fire-engine red awash. A crowd gathers to mingle, a child may wander … Continue reading
Filed under Night Poems
Day 2,031 (Outside the Hive)
The bees are dying. No one knows why. Saying hello as you roll away does nothing to clear away this rain. The beekeeper rarely speaks, his voice cracks from disuse. I resist filling in his blanks. They are not blank, … Continue reading
Filed under Day Poems
Natural Pause
It’s not going to kill me—this chemistry experiment being performed inside the boundary between me and everything else. Unused. Cessation. It gets erased gradually.
Filed under Overnight Poems
So Utter
Sorrow as a second language, spoken there, taught here, she comes to get her education, to give back all she has. It’s yours, if you can use it. She asks questions no one questions— answers upon answers erased from the … Continue reading
Filed under Morning Poems
Truth in Transport
Someone’s placed a photo of a boat on the side of a train. There are buses with bicycle racks on their grilles, people walking off planes onto moving sidewalks. And there’s the pigeon foot I discover on a curb a … Continue reading
Filed under Night Poems
No Rote
Entangled in a net of no one to blame’s making, I forget what I said yesterday about this pier and its hurricane scars. About to begin another plunge into dense deconstructions of choppy water. About to listen for those dirges … Continue reading
Filed under Morning Poems
Gargoyle or Caryatid
Crouched above you, she holds everything against the mantle and flicks lit matches, narrowly escaping your exposed proud flesh. I could be her before another renovation after rain.
Filed under Civil Twilight or Dawn Poems
Loners Club
Each time I break this silence to join a conversation, I have to start at the beginning again to learn what I’ve missed since the last time I was human.
Filed under Afternoon Poems
Current
That was when they had the invisible fence. That was when you said I had a warm heart. All of you got it wrong.
Filed under Afternoon Poems
