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Four Poems

I am veins and breath, the entrance the world passes through.

Four Poems

There’s nowhere he can kiss where she hasn’t been kissed by the sun.

Four Poems

How large our muscles have to be to lift our wings even a single time.

Four Poems

Imagine octopus, and keep the talk going through the chew.

Four Poems

I’ve taken the pledge and made donations of blood to the world.

Four Poems

A child no bigger than small change calls from her window j’ai faim.

Four Poems

What do you offer someone who has lost half of her beginning?

Four Poems

The mechanism and its crank pull us forever closer, you and I.

Four Poems

Soon everything here will be sopped up by time. Only art will last.

Four Poems

Regarding the affairs of our Father, your demon is Ennui.

Four Poems

This is the stupid math of loving another human being.

Four Poems

My brush an M-16, thirty-round clips for tubes of paint, all of them red.

Free Huey P. Newton with Every Purchase and Other Poems

At Walden Pond, Henry Thoreau clicks like on the “Wilderness” page.

Frog

Let’s put a frog in his bed and have him feel it jump all over him.

From A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor

Like lions in cages, women like me dream . . . of freedom . . .

From After Love

With these fingers, afraid and aware, I stroke your delicate skin.

From Deluge

I bled. God didn’t want to hear about it. He said unclean and so it was.

From Flood Song

The meeting hall of their bodies piled on lawns caked with dying birds.

From Here

The keys look like Tommy’s teeth once he began to appreciate meth.

from long life hotel

i learned to save lives from a man who reminded me of my father

From Out Near Ballincollig

“You’re going somewhere now,” he said. “Up to the big smoke.”

From Rising, Falling, Hovering

We cannot leave it to the forces to rub out the color of the world.

From Sonnets to the Humans

From The Judas Ear

Don’t try to find me by spit, by genetic sleuthing, by Are you my?

From Winter’s Apprentice

A ripple across the darker fathom, no sooner there than torn away.

From “Call It in the Air”

He told me that he knows a parent’s grief for a dead child.

From “Fall Line”

I want you, you captive, delivered into each other’s territories.

From “Home/Front”

What consequence is a body/a body nonetheless. If the light in me is gone.

From “Someone”

Your hand on my nightgown, my soft places. I wish you wouldn’t do that.

From “The Book of Clay”

God is there between things, sitting at his own left hand.