Sunday, March 27, 2011

Look ma!


I made an "album." If for some reason anyone finds this interesting, they're welcome to it.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

the sickness unto desiderata

lest
in argent
of heavenly bodies
all blazon points
with the tincture
of infection
your temple hot
and dry eyes by night should rise
ask this
what is so new
as that which is not understood

how it should pass for simple white
we feel behind the silver of dusk is
a thing that we had almost touched.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

the occasion of the supermoon

by window the moon framed
pulled back or rising
upon this beach of wall
by orbit hours,
pocked orb be-seamed
how serene she shines
upon serene line of quilted sleeping
you, like desert dune traced
in cool of night,
and in circling by night and day
we each an intertidal zone are
a strip of life we own
mine widened by pull
of your nearness grown.



Sunday, March 13, 2011

Oak tree song

Oak

Friday, March 04, 2011

The house on Pleasant Avenue (for Aunt Linda)

you lived on pleasant avenue
and you had a toy robot

and the pictures on your walls
all had stories in them
and you
could tell them to us

you were like a new element
to me
Lindenium
made of movement
and laughter and energy

you had a chromatic harmonica
maracas and a wood block
a tambourine and it didn't seem
to matter how one shook it
it would be music
at Linda's

you would walk out to our car
when we had to leave
and say goodbye
the elms would sway above your eyes
looking through the open car window

riding away I would turn around
and look back
until I couldn't see you
waving from pleasant avenue.

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Broke out the mando

Take me with you