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It’s raining concrete. I bite my grief wetly. Who will test these chains?

“I want to stay in real yurts,” I said, “not yurts for Westerners.”

Blacked-out little angel, you shuffle home under the streetlights.

Every room came furnished half-real & dead like mirrors on skin

Bad luck, like the white-scabs disease, can infect others.

It’s other things than the like of you would make a person afeard.

It lay slumped where they’d dragged it, a fright of an animal.

I decide it’s as good a place as any to stop, pant & smell the roses—

The old-timer outside the guard station was knifing his own tires.

Phaethon thought he could drive the sun but was struck down to earth.

Under pillows of snow, the creek shushes the sharp architecture of ice.

This box is full of wires, energy that moves in ways I can hardly fathom.

I wondered if the coyotes and deer were mourning the loss of Steve.

We know that we were lied to, the disaster was worse than we feared.

Let those shadows sift the spirits of their children from the silt.

Whitman may just mean: it is pretty cold, but there’s always colder.

she was right—hurricane being the name of the feeling, the twist of it.

I could throw one of these rocks at the moon and watch it fall.

and there I was five-foot-four and most way old enough to drive

The raven cocked its black eye, dipped its beak in the red pool.

It was as if we were shedding our very selves to become someone else.

Charge the ground till it glitters. It was God’s pleading in that rink.

I want to bring the duality of us together, not spar with language.

The irreversible ink stain breaking the face of whatever we skate on.

we stiletto back to floodlit stages and boy flesh / stripped sequins

Instead of attunement, I was given a pair of size 6 Toughskins.

What a noise it must have made long ago. It’s not just me saying this.

Frank Avery came into the kitchen. In his left hand he carried a .22 pistol.

Tonight’s moon has dropped its shawl. I’m in the yard again, waiting.

In the republic of pain, we bloom ice bags and crutches on limbs.