I can see draughty stars drift inside my skull. Roots and boles and boughs and leaves press at the backs of my eyes. A spider rambles inside my body and scuttles out of my mouth. This suit is an agony. Black flies from the creek fall into my teacup— keep one […]
Naked, the Emperor gazes up at the giraffe wavering on crane-legs after days in the dark, waiting. The people, witness, have never seen such a creature, they know […]
Is it the sea we wish? The sleep of the changeless? […]
Like flash bulb, maybe a firefly, she felt herself flare & then dim, & then waited for the surge of matter she had no means to measure in her gut. Glass ceiling but no visible stars, intimation of leaves. On the workbench, transfigured earth singing, &, though she can’t know this, singing in […]
Not cantata—sonata. Whatever they were, the first birds of spring, the doctor kneaded your breast counterclockwise. Discovering the mass, he needled a bit of blood & core, asked me to push Print— a sonogram I could imagine Beethoven, maddened by syphilis or […]
I am drawn to Phaethon’s friend, Cygnus. His change seems at least half-willed, half the evolution of guilt. For $1,000 you can have your own genome sequenced to find what difference exists between you & the marsh bird you might wish to become. North of Chambers Street, I sat in the planning chief’s […]
To be doubled as in greater than I + I zygote pair self swimming the pool of self or is it halved as a cleaved grapefruit? In school, you write him as your brother, this lost other who drank sap with you in the early dark. Little Gemini: friend. […]
Long days of rain a phone was ringing High over the steppes the wet Gables of the world immortal it was Our souls streaming into quiets Of woodgrain toward what Plane of convergence for years I could not Answer a music in pain the undying Will undying in […]