dublin where there aren’t any redwoods no bears no people who carry guns just city just dublin dusty streets where everything is literary in a book somewhere and used to be beautiful. where everything is just the right size not… Continue Reading
Ah! Of all the many poems listed in this collection of Frank O’Hara’s finest, to think I cannot even find one titled “Rain” seems a mistake. A l’autre côte de la fenêtre, Il y a des petites morceaux de l’eau… Continue Reading
The earth folded and unfurled her layers, forging the green rock veined with the scarlet courage of dragon’s blood to remind you of what you are becoming. There is an olive tree blooming in Italy. There is a gardener planting… Continue Reading
The door was everywhere, and in everything; I stepped through it back to the house alone. Sunlight gleamed off frosted ground, and breath rose in clouds from my face. May the world and its authority collapse in these words. At… Continue Reading
Better than that ORACLE® –…These are notes not script: delete them select observer.trip, observer.tripprofile ..observer.trip_id ..to_char(‘YYYY’) year from observer.trips – Next select what you need. Taunt the database with parentheses. where observer.trip in (‘have_you_seen’, ‘my_elements’, ‘elements’, ‘my-elements’, ‘have-you-seen’, ‘my.elements’, ‘all_through’,… Continue Reading
Under the three skyscrapers you make her ankles sore. They don’t yet know being avoided at house parties. She loses to the study room floor that burned her back. Your knees—raw beneath bar dulled denim. Smoke rings drop fast from… Continue Reading
Of Pole Dancers and Dark Desires Undress molasses sweet. Reach through the sound of smiles and tomorrows. Hook your nightly dream. Of Screeching tires featherlings fingernails on chalkboards sonic tonations of terror & terrorizing tangible auditory ………..hallucinations ………..elicit… Continue Reading
Paradise is semi-empty they should have lowered the entrance price or took more reservations online while the manager— picture a cardiac arrest—is sweating and moshing kids once children have sensed the panic scream or silently leave the pool the chef… Continue Reading
a cup on its side at the edge of a lake in Germany in the late evening one summer as the sun begins to sink below the line of trees to the West and you are sitting on a park… Continue Reading
Jesus Lizard Attempting to catch me before I fall into sleep, you query “Did you know the basilisk lizard can run on water like Jesus?” Flickering consciousness, I sink the conversation with silence before it sets sail in this sea… Continue Reading