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Tweet Perspective on Time
I When I was nine, I spent my time at school or on the bus, keeping quiet. A soldier spy, Jedi Knight, superhero— someone struggling to maintain a meek secret identity. This narration, a running monologue rewrote everything, a chrome remolding of every tarnished event, until some khaki-slacked teacher called . . . → Read More: Perspective on Time Tweet Aged eight, I discovered the dun-colored bedclothes stuck to me, my back, when, tired and wince-eyed, I woke. Sheets peeled away, in stitches over scapulae was a moss of scabby fabric; brown pills, clots of cotton commingled with my own red cells, the result like crooked stripes of caked mud. I’d fallen out of . . . → Read More: Belial Tweet A voice on the other end of a 911 call says “STAY CALM” while her body is cold and staring up. Holding my hand. “STAY CALM.” But I need to know, how do I wave fingers and make eyes close like on TV? The voice on the other side asks an address as I . . . → Read More: Receiver Tweet You have a photograph of me that I don’t remember. You offer it up and tell me that it’s you behind the camera. I am giddy, dapper, Devil-eyed. You say it was your il a maturé birthday in a walnut-paneled room. And it doesn’t matter that neither of us is sure we’ve met before . . . → Read More: Phototropism Tweet Being alone for life, with no other citizen in your state of mind; no one who needs you and no one to need; no one sharing history, understanding, the full, subtle, intangible textures of your lexicon, those complicated connotations; this is a glass egg feeling, the longform equivalent of tearing butterflies in two. (2003) Tweet Waist-deep in the broth of the Atlantic, I take a wave made of fists to the chest. Stumbling in the cockstrut way of feet on shells, I remember that eighty percent of our globe is salt water just like the eighty percent of our bodies—all saline too. Knocked to my shins by the juggernaut . . . → Read More: Saline Tweet One sure way to feel like flat cola in a wax cup, baking under July sun, is to wait six months and read what you’ve written. Revisit your own congealed feelings, words which have suffered the linguistic equivalent of an expiration date. One absolutely sure way to feel like broken teeth in mottled gums . . . → Read More: On Collected Poetry Tweet She is in the passenger’s seat of her car. On break and pushing down her cuticles with the edge of a blackened penny. The oppressive air is a medley led by piss her cat left on his final trip to the vet and winter snowfall which slipped through loose-wound windows, melted and mildewed. The . . . → Read More: Manicurist’s Satori Tweet Sitting in the bath, a poem written on my thigh, in water- soluble black ink, melts faster than you’d think. The first stanza into the second, pooling and becoming concentrated, thick tears the color of collected rainwater in an ashtray. And it accomplishes nothing, except to remind that all art is quite an indulgence, . . . → Read More: In the Bath Tweet I am a peridot. My two half-sisters: garnet, an amethyst. And together, we’re mounted on a circlet of greening, tarnished gold. The ring is the sum of her life and the remainder of her existence. It is the single souvenir I took when she died. And though I recall it spinning freely on my . . . → Read More: I’ll Have to Put It on a Chain |
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