We have heavy heads
January 19, 2015 at 7:50:27 AM
We have
heavy heads
in the mud
our beards
our heavy anchors
we have sand
we have brows
we have grain
we have
heavy breath
tart corn
we have bread
heavy bargains
haloed feet
bare pencils
we have run out
of red
we have broken tiles
we have made a house
in the car
heavy brackets
his wind-worn eyes
we have bands
we have bowls
I give you a duck
October 28, 2013 at 7:37:37 AM
I give you a duck a trampoline I give
you a duck I give you a parameter I give
you a way to fly I give you a prince a
temper a weight of water I give you a
duck I give you a circle I give you a lake
I give you tires I give you home I give
you a duck a tenor a dozen hens I give
you a light a morning I give you the
unbound box a glass you are not lost to
the strange and stirring ghost you are
not lost to practice I give you a duck
you are not lost the current leaves I give
you a duck the stairs I give you a duck I
give you a beach
I take a tour
here is where
we rebuild
I take you
a walk
I give you
a duck
a shore
I take you
a wrench
the blurbing
needs water
I give you
a tool
the beach
has come up
the trip
I take you
a waltz
the certain
I give you
a sound
I give you
a beach
(first published in The Atlas Review)
Disobedience a chunky angle
June 7, 2015 at 7:00:44 AM
Disobedience a chunky angle to the
staircase where I thought survival meant
the basement the flies of fortune the
early morning birds speaking in a secret
language of ghosts and gratitudes the
earth breaking in a vision a grand
keyboard a breakfast and a dog
Obedience
so untenable
so entirely disliked
in families
and fortunes
there’s only
one way through
we break the window
unsweep the rug
unpolish the handrail
fall down the stairs
and run
A courtyard at my feet
August 11, 2013 at 7:51:03 AM
A courtyard at my feet a couch the wind
the waves like cordial fists
I live outside on the deck of a boat a streamer of baking hitched across a private coast the big current world in a big turquoise pool with sherpas and giant turtles I want to forget how to put words together if I fail at failing I want to laugh myself to sleep