You don’t see me
I am not here
my face isn’t recognized by
the algorithms of state
Being
called into question by manipulated geography [Read more…]
You don’t see me
I am not here
my face isn’t recognized by
the algorithms of state
Being
called into question by manipulated geography [Read more…]
Dirty hands
in latex gloves
spreading legs
fondling bodies
fingering satchels of sweaty underwear
reading other people’s mail
[Read more…]
Wind
rolls into a soda can
rattles against Cedars
trees sway breezes
A gust throws sky into clouds
blows branches out of shadowboxed walls [Read more…]
At a place called Cavo Greco
waves break inside rocks
sun foams from the mouths of caves
messengers are mistaken for their songs [Read more…]
Before human beings
followed the snake
winding through dry riverbed
stars were clocks
Before human beings
traced the calligraphy of butterflies
up hillsides ordained as villages
hours tolled
prayers [Read more…]
You wilted
before the severely pruned branches
returned
before throbbing cuts healed
In earlier seasons
I wondered why anyone would plant a tree
they could not let grow? [Read more…]
The shattered skull of Amathus
buzzes with invaders
from unexcavated countries
Visitors comb
temple splinters
whose gods have been sold
to the sirens of human immortality. [Read more…]
DRAWN
I’m drawn
to divided cities
where roads end in amputations
town squares cleaved
lives bifurcated
Walk into walls
that ache with separation
anxiety oozing through bricks [Read more…]
Didn’t know
I arrived
because I never left Olympus
No need for words
when the mouth is full of baclava from Damascus
dried apricots and cinnamon
aged in oak casks [Read more…]
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