Early February, 2014. The weather’s still cold and ambivalent. I’m in a basement at York University, staring out the window at snow and people hunched against the wind. A seminar of past graduates of the English programs has just ended,… 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
Iron Boy has been Called to save Sydney From annihilation And the Myers-Briggs Personality Test Doesn’t actually mean Anything. A new study Suggests horses can Read facial expressions Differentiate heroes And goats roam empty Prairies of our memory. Chemical strangle… Continue Reading
One Anodized Moment In the parking garage at dawn the rows of cars nose the lean moon setting over the suburbs. I lie back and listen to ticks of engines cooling; the air, although November, sultry enough to spoon and… Continue Reading
The limits of power All of what a cloud could do I can do in my mind dragon whale small girl child willow tree past thoughts caught in a memory box pocket of digital faces numbers not to call skin… Continue Reading
Bed ruffled. Stink rises from the city dump. Old magazines stacked on chairs. Cranes like giant steel grasshoppers move in among the derelict brick weeds. Broken umbrella sailing in from Jersey City. Waves bring the joy of syringes and failed… Continue Reading
I know you heard my sleepless tongue repeat in sleep how I yearned to rearrange every whitecap letter of my name, so I could blacksmith my manner into Edmond Dantès. Each letter would spend a year in flame, the J… Continue Reading
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Day disappeared from the shallows: I asked for it back; my soft lines in your hard shell. Touch is frantic Everything you think you gave me duplicates in circles and holds hierarchy Unknowingly I taught myself magic during five-minute breaks… Continue Reading
fire of conflict I have to remember how —why I brought the matches what you spun ———fed on us ———left me ————-skin stretched over memory I thought change was natural a chasm between idea and the reality remember this—–the matches—–the… Continue Reading