Wealthy patrons complain
about the absence of ice buckets
in nightclubs:

Bloated small talk
that melts glaciers   [Read more…]

Sun and sea collude
clouds of shallow representations

Demand loyalties
that encrust the suspended
with density
that drags last gasps under
just to get
get to the bottom
of light   [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
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The sky falls in waves
yellow sun set in sandstone:
Heaven is on earth   [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…]

A hairline fracture
Was enough to free the grass –
Erupting sidewalk   [Read more…]

The gold has been hocked –
The furniture auctioned off –
Buddha meditates.
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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…]