I sent my kite up high above the apple trees, their blossoms brimming with the nectar of the gods. In the Royal Dragoons, you never had a prayer of getting a kite up, what with the reins in one hand, a saber in the other, and the sky above the battlefield so still and full … Continue reading Kite
I have had worse summers. I have sprayed fuck police On the back of a bus that said Free Humanity on it and Slept with plenty of cops and I have sat on hot stoops Icing my forearms praying against everything. I think of my happiest moments when happiness was elsewhere And I begged the … Continue reading Sonnet In Anger
On the way home from Tina’s detention, air smokes like fire ate flowers, a whole field of wild, colors stolen for ash. “Why on Earth did you swallow those moths?” Tina’s mother asks. “You ate Lee’s entire science project. All stages!” she exclaims, before the car returns to silence. Tina remains numb like words were … Continue reading Luminous
“You don’t count the dead when God’s on your side.” ~ Bob Dylan Your tanks are pure metal, impenetrable, yet they stall out over open ground, gauges collapsing at the glint of a mine. Confused by local road signs, they bumble into nameless crossroads in deep snow, lose their way in the dense forests … Continue reading Tanks
Unzip a man,you’ll find a smaller man sleeping.Unzip that man,you’ll find a window that needs cleaning.Clean the window and look out,you’ll see the man’s dreamsfloating by.Unzip a dream,find something sort of likewhat we call God.Unzip that thing,find footprints leading nowherethat never end.Zip the man back upbefore he realizes.So I do as he sits thereacross from … Continue reading Unzip A Man
1. in the land of starving babies in the land of smokestacks and poison where wise men ring broken bells you start the song, but the car spins out of control crashes through the crowd, and the earth here is flat and thick with blood the factories sleep without dreaming the lovers are less than … Continue reading Traitor
night falls quite suddenlyover war in other countries,while the morning is finehere and biteable, cleanas new coins. a young man,with control for his shiftof a remote operationsecurity gate,fiddles the buttonsat a private estateentrance just onthe outside ofblackrock. another mandriving a truckwith Panda Waste Disposal Costamped on the cargogrows impatient and waitsfor a load of recycling.sunrise … Continue reading Sunrise and Building-Cast Shadows
image of christ appears on anempty billboard just north of townbut this is not hope dead men are not the future let the dogs run wild let the children live in fear taste of gasoline should beenough to keep them going the promise of pain andabandoned shopping malls everything broken andseen from a distance bulldozers … Continue reading A Brief History of the Kingdom of Nil
Out past the last town lies the land of nothing. Thirty-million years ago this tectonic plate failed to stretch itself thin enough to build any new ocean. Only scars remain: normal faults and rock piles. Valleys, filled to their throats with sediments, enough space to contain all the ghosts and wild burros. This sagebrush sky … Continue reading Basin And Range
After the stroke you could not lift your left hand to meet your right in prayer, so a daughter pressed her young flesh full palm against your wrinkled one so your hands could speak for your lips were cracked in a mouthy desert of dried saliva. This daughter, by your sidetried to abide the ordersto … Continue reading Tic Tac