Poetry

  • Bitter Paideia Dreams

    Where the drill swings affront to old music in tired weeks, convulsions lift weights swallow teeth from liger dreams, transit projective beams loose jaws and bear grim shifts, a dark...

  • Escorting Passengers

    “Indecision burrowed in our throat,” forever / vacant beneath the resistance for “dreams in our lungs,” narrow condolences born valuable. Lasting hundreds of years, “we share,” children in uniforms “scorched...

  • Fuller’s Earth

    early morning heretics empiricists who become vengeful ghosts a crude romance between wonder and astonishment past stencil objects neglecting its true nature a thing exposed, a moment in taunt distilling...

  • Knock Out Roses for China

    Knock out roses And the Lord said Lift these roses now you know how much a child weighs place these roots And the Lord said Take these roots and take...

  • Northing Ravels

    Plumb disposed in shrieking cavern walls Where sjambok treads the sun and lisp new waves No heir or torrent glissé nadir pains But marked by a glass eel toiling falls...

  • Lighter Time of Day

    Coulisse tapestry subsumes ardent play a miasma applause rifts balconies high contusion ripples from the stage, a low coarse rescinds subtle tragedy Where naturalism would not grieve entry but negates...

  • Song for Mornings

    lacustrine voyages invite mean fleeting memories objects distilled know more grasp, than riding currents stallage weights cry for morning light under staithe no meadows but palstav marks the currency where...

  • When you are older

    When you are older And the gravel steps march tea hunger Ten inch incisors mark her hips She watches his display of monstrous Monosyllable reductions, courses The wind in aromatic...

  • Allon

    Retreat, to the old gold bough on furnaced lengthen legs of surplice dew He is unsituated behind the terebinth, below strange tongues with filament chapped lips fencing two kisses on...

  • Angry With The Waters

    Prelude Interrogation Ode No new stardust in the microcosm no extraordinary matter condescends our marginal bridled constitution cambers and weighs what chartered hearts lend though they linger and answer not...