Where drought hasn’t melted men
into three seasons
A shuffle of footsteps
in discarded leaves
warns
Winter is coming [Read more…]
Where drought hasn’t melted men
into three seasons
A shuffle of footsteps
in discarded leaves
warns
Winter is coming [Read more…]
I tried to leave
because she
can be cruel
to women and children
unkind to the strangers
she once was herself
Round corners
in a remote countries
and there she was
looking out of starry eyes
waving wind
Stowed in my suitcase
carried over seas of clouds [Read more…]
Rain bubbles asphalt —
Thunder’s light reopens wounds —
Seeps through cloud cover. [Read more…]
Over
35,000 men women children
wired to a fence
Each name
a page in earth’s history
spit into fire
devoured by sea
deported
redacted into dust [Read more…]
I found my voice
and it won’t be shutdown
iced over
stamped out
by bullets striking stones
My voice
can’t be invaded
bricked up
pulled under
by coyotes howling
walls [Read more…]
Water’s weight
raised sky
held her down
Waves beat fatigued wings
into molten scales of sun: [Read more…]
Behind the door god’s
ninety-nine paths
Initiates
voluntarily shed coats
remove shoes
submit their inner selves
to the scrutiny of electromagnetic waves
The absolved
float down narrow corridors
through automatic doors [Read more…]
The joke is
on US
when laughter
provokes tears
Good medicine
goes bad
Delivery
executed
with the slap of a stick
that punches
our original voices
into mimes [Read more…]
I still feel my fathers hands
on top of mine
guiding the push reel mower
over lawn
the satisfaction of sweat
put into each cleanly cut line [Read more…]
When F-16s
fly overhead
I sense the bulging wall
of a blood vessel
and worry the unchecked aneurysm
will rupture
into an airburst
vaporizing
sunbathing
torsos [Read more…]
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