You call this a poem?
Or what one learns if one rents a car and it gets a flat tire? It wasn’t just a thought of A’s graying CEO, The bright idea of some young fellows at company B – There was the… Read More ›
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The Ballad of Don and Dee
At 9 in line at The Dry Goat Don he heard this from Dee: “How many lives must it consume – French pressed, small batch coffee?” The faded denim of her shirt Agreed with gentle breasts. Don, helping synch… Read More ›
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In which a poet realizes he’d better exit a yoga class
Along the floor of that class there rippled such a rage, As woman upon woman waited on mats not rafts, For some soft music and exercises that thousands Of penguins badly needing icebergs would not assuage, Nor rid them of… Read More ›
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A poem about the sun
Our god is a consuming fire Hebrews 12:29 When summer came, he left the city Afraid of the heat and pollution Afraid of the sun He found himself in a hospital In a ward with no air-conditioning… Read More ›
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Someone puts “Saxapahaw” in an e-mail and you have to write a poem
In Saxapahaw before the war Boys and girls were locked in remote cabins for weeks And given only toxic plants and rancid meat to eat A surefire way to identify the weak Those who crawled out – if half-crazed, still… Read More ›
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Writing doesn’t have to involve running away
I read a poem by a young woman About her attachment to female racehorses. I know they come first, she concluded. Something like that. I thought, being a man, I should write About stallions – their muscles? speed? power?… Read More ›
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L’amour intercontinental, universel
for Tory and A.S. Essential it was that she was a foreigner – Misreading, mistaken and thus so much warmer. And as I from her her was equally estranged – Oh we passed such pleasant, such comfortable days! Younger, she… Read More ›
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American culture ›
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In which a poet realizes he’d better exit a yoga class
July 17, 2018
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Someone puts “Saxapahaw” in an e-mail and you have to write a poem
June 18, 2018
De la philosophie impure ›
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By climate change our coffee beans find themselves threatened
November 9, 2017
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Drawing, Conversation, Life
March 9, 2017
Denial the American Way ›
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Uneager reader and undaunted poet talk
April 11, 2018
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Ode to Southern Californians (Their race is run?)
September 28, 2017
Etiquette ›
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Of liking, commenting, conversation, writing, reading, drawing, painting
January 30, 2018
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Our lives are Swiss (Nos vies sont suisses)
February 1, 2017
Faits Divers ›
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Brunch, sex and violence (Not for public consumption)
November 20, 2017
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L’inspecteur et sa femme à New York
December 14, 2016
Just Being ›
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Another Kind of Love Poem
January 16, 2018
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Conversation . . . Evil . . . Emerson . . . Jesus . . . Conversation
January 12, 2016
L’aile française ›
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Life would be easier if people were (et rebelote)
May 31, 2018
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Those who follow the news are not superior but complicit = Ce qui se tient au courant de l’actualité ne sont pas supérieurs mais complices
December 19, 2017
Listening for the Unconscious ›
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the wedge of her nose quite rightfully assumed
March 20, 2018
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I had placed my hopes in aporia
February 13, 2017
No Solution ›
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A poem about the sun
July 3, 2018
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They did this for any number of years
May 10, 2018
Parents and Children ›
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Perhaps rebellion keeps a boy warm
February 13, 2018
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Nurture
December 26, 2017
sex (more or less) ›
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The Ballad of Don and Dee
July 25, 2018
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Mani-Pedi, a toxic Christian poem? with extensive footnotes?
February 20, 2018
The Real World ›
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You call this a poem?
August 6, 2018
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L’amour intercontinental, universel
June 1, 2018
With Afterwords ›
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Ameraiku
May 23, 2017
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First Sentences
October 15, 2013
Writing ›
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Not these outward copies
November 24, 2017
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Art, Sex, Politics (Serving House Books)
November 15, 2017
Zed ›
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Murder, children and other crimes
April 25, 2018
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Despondent White House Criminals Should Look Up
September 25, 2017
