Long Distance Love
A friend sendsA picture of three chickensStanding in a kind ofFormationOn a road whereThe snow has begunTo retreat
FunnyI tell herI was singing...
BLACKOUT
I know you are cold,motionless under covers holding the warmthso that freeze won't seep into your skin.I know you are cold,on the sofa under...
Imagining
Imagine light unpeelinglike appleskin,or a cloud of crowscircling,from a woodland pondreflectingtrees aboveregarding me with wonder,imagining me.
Awakening
See morning unpeellike an orange,loop the merry-go-round sun andonceagainchurn...
Etched
protectedand unprotectedpartsmake the wholemake the art
pour on the acidthe chemicalsfeel the burnfeel the boiling consumptiondepletiondestruction
or just watch it
from beneath the quiet balmof secrecy and...
Auguryafter Relative by Sam Gilliam
The sky washes over me, enticing,bursting open with orange and teal,
a cleansing becoming more vibrantfrom west to east. Soft, like...
Crimson
What makestonight's tropical wind so coldI wonder how the trees will surviveCome and kill me, engulf mein your wild currentsin you, I have heard,...
The Parabolic Flight of the Hummingbird
I will hypnotize you
With my ecstatic flight,
Back and forth,
Flashing ruby red.
Casting my spell to declare
All of this mine--
The flowers,...
Shadow Selfie
Projected onto shalebut rooted in this planet,we long to countervailthe weight of sandstone, granite,and metamorphic rocks.We welcome paradox.
Our presence is a maskagainst the...
Collections
My childhood collectionsstamps from every countryplaced neatly in a booktiny porcelain cats in a boxand stories about their livesthat made sense
Fifty years later, I...
Wish to Be Wind
Two men come,With man-built instruments;They laid on the groundTarps, big, blue, stretchedCanvases collect whatwas left of this year's trees.
Brown blankets breakWet...