Posted in Poetry on Feb 1st, 2005 No Comments »
She disappeared between the lines of weeks,
where the darkness of winter could hide
her glowing eyes and too bright skin
beneath wool layers thick.
A thousand million things happened at once:
appointments kept, conversations held,
money spent, acquaintances forgotten,
snow fell but did not stick.
Far in the distance an inexorable breeze pulled
her impossibly toward untimely summer,
and she melted into spring too [...]
Posted in Poetry on Oct 25th, 2004 No Comments »
A tunnel connects, plunges through,
unimpeded by time or space.
On this side of reality I am
and on the other also,
the other me.
The mirror half blinks, turns with me,
detected both here and there.
Infinite paths I could take
and each one chosen,
each one walked.
Posted in Poetry on Sep 25th, 2004 No Comments »
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0
1
Minus
Neutral
Plus
Cold
Warm
Hot
Black
Gray
White
Falling
Stationary
Rising
Away
Here
Toward
Left
Center
Right
Death
Life
Birth
Male
Intercourse
Female
Lack
Enough
Excess
Pain
Peace
Pleasure
Rejection
Contentment
Desire
Conservative
Moderate
Liberal
Monarchy
Republic
Anarchy
Hell
Earth
Heaven
Reality
Perception
Dream
Chaos
Balance
Order
Posted in Poetry on Sep 12th, 2004 No Comments »
Two nine
Four eight one
one six six four one
one three six three six one six one
one nine three six nine three six one three six one
one zero
nine
one two
seven
nine
one
four eight
one two
three
two nine
one one
two
Posted in Poetry on Sep 8th, 2004 No Comments »
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Posted in Poetry on Sep 7th, 2004 No Comments »
ice breeze caresses
bare legs in full run on stone
goddam it’s early
Posted in Poetry on Jan 1st, 2002 No Comments »
He lives his life
in the spaces between obligation
Like the flashes of light
on the cels of a motion picture.
His footsteps are the fall of leaves to the pavement,
whispering and sometimes a clap.
He sees a woman
crossing and uncrossing her arms,
straightening,
Unsure of whether she is
in front of
or behind
the table.
A glove suspended
in the spaces between the branches
Like the [...]
Posted in Poetry on Jan 1st, 2002 No Comments »
Though we once hung by our knees
in the tree’s upper branches,
every thought visible on the night air,
we were standing
on the other’s cupped hands
and gasping in the fainting breeze.
Mirage of stone and leaves,
rid yourself of that chrysalis
and its cage of fantasies.
Friend, you were never really there.
Though we once dreamt of lands
where our hands could weave
every [...]
Posted in Poetry on Jan 1st, 2002 No Comments »
Slowly breathe in,
filling your lungs with the salt sea air,
and breathe out again.
The petulant north wind
with icy fingers tousles your hair;
slowly breathe in.
Push your chin
deep into your thick wool sweater
and breathe out again.
Your eyes closing,
let the sand cradle your form there;
slowly breathe in.
Above the ocean’s din,
hear the gulls cry, joy and despair,
and breathe out [...]
Posted in Poetry on Jan 1st, 2002 No Comments »
(for Tanya)
What color would he turn in the sun
if his skin was already angry ruby red
and his eyes a golden fire?
Would, with all the gaiety of summer’s swelter,
he leap from his watery bonds
and dance upon the stones,
tailfin for feet,
all the hues of the rainbow
blinding, glinting, winding
back through the clear, blue sky
to the source of [...]