Category: Poetry

Erysipelas

A poem for your brambled mind.

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Famous Last Words

1. Waiting are they? Let them wait. This is the last of the earth! Codeine. . .bourbon, I am Content. It’s just that I can’t sleep. Boats are knocking, boats against the past. I worry. Don’t let poor Nelly starve: … Read More

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Milk cum laude

“10 o’clock peek-a-boo
12 o’clock Looney Tune”

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Poem for Tim Faust, who said that poems shouldn’t be about flowers

This poem not about flowers just goes to show how far we’ve come since the days when people could practically not think without a daffodil, when in poetry a rose was not yet just a rose but always stood for … Read More

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Two Poems

Things you have lost to the wind:

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Carrion

Remember, my soul, the thing we saw That soft summer morning: At the turn in the path, upon a bed of scattered stones, A carcass lying raw. Like a woman in lust with its legs in the air Burning and … Read More

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Arizona 06/13/2011

“the flash captures/our bodies/in eternal film”

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Mr. Poem

Mouth taking the form
around like the moistening apple core
which deforms peculiarly
in the way of these things,

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Stages of Departure

“What do you do when you suspect
that you’ve unleashed the atom bomb of the Universe”

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Creole

“All gone Quinn.”
“Who sir?”
“Shy Anne.”
“You sure?”

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Ars Poetica

“Brought back to the smooth oil, our skin so platonic in the bathroom light. / Enough secrecy for love, enough ugliness for comfort.”

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Geography Lesson

If the Atlantic Ocean has seen my breasts, held them for an evening in the dark, full night, did he tell anyone? If sky observed, unfurled her firmaments? If the arc of my neck meant anything [to him], cradled in … Read More

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