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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, senseless . . . → Read More: In the Bath Tweet I’ve already penned two full books of poetry as art therapy when the diagnosis comes back negative. I’m not Bipolar after all, it says. The doctor assures me I am nothing of the sort. I am healthy, best anyone can tell. I want to ask, then, what the blue fuck my problem is, but I . . . → Read More: The Consultation Tweet I forget now who ended it or why, but I don’t have that tattoo anymore and my hair is cut short. I eat soup and salad only, go running twice every day. I think she knew I never wrote poems, but I wanted to. (2002) Tweet The Queen of the Laestrygonians and I had dinner once in winter. “Your meal is my treat,” I explained and she bat lashes like blades to call me under her covers. “Tell me a story,” she said. I sewed soul’s yarn into saga, cried a wayward seafarer’s tears into her alabaster palms. I betrayed myself, . . . → Read More: Smitten Tweet This won’t be love- making. It’s an empty construct. An abomination. Keep reading and I will promise you no symbolic language, no archetypal characters, no deus ex machina, no meaning buried beneath the text—except a lusty reverence for the very act of creation. This is poetic masturbation. Likewise, it will soon spiral out of control. . . . → Read More: An Uninspired Onanism Tweet The editors of your fine magazine will not accept waxing of any kind on love, sex or dying. The editors of your fine magazine issue an admonishment, insisting that there are other importances in life. The editors of your fine magazine want snow-shoveling, jazz or maybe verse on the verse of others. The editors of . . . → Read More: Best of Luck Placing It Elsewhere Tweet At dawn, when the water is a sidereal, speckled checkerboard of marigold on violet and blue, row past the breakers out to the mouth of the tide; fill an iron urn with the briny saliva from under the tongue of the sea. Spill it out midday into a flat-bottomed blown glass pan. Take a nap; . . . → Read More: Ars Poetica Tweet Yesterday, I spared forty-one poems from a sudden apocalypse. An unfortunate three-hundred-ninety of their kin didn’t make it through the maelstrom and tribulation. They disappeared in an act worthy of a fundamentalist’s Old Testament, angry god. If I wanted to feel grand, I could tell you I smote them. It had become clear that they . . . → Read More: It Rained Tweet It’s a center-cut round of living tissue. Butchered, dense flesh; the porous core; an animal heart still beating, cross-sectioned and bleeding out its meaning. It is preserved and perforated sweetmeat pressed between the pages, kept as a memory. Like a lost tooth, a lock of hair, or the foreskin from an only son. (2004) Tweet The color of your eyes is a complete surprise to me. I’ve never considered it. You’re sitting across from me and you’re brooding, bellicose. I have no right to be shocked, but your attitude is not the one I expected. When I spoke to you Tuesday you insisted, even sounded enthusiastic. But settling on your . . . → Read More: Here Is My Only Elsewhere |
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