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 ›
sex (more or less)
Mani-Pedi, a toxic Christian poem? with extensive footnotes?
Or, This being the notes of a lonely poet who has passed a neighborhood nail salon packed to the gills on a rainy Sunday evening Sometime after a Jewish Mary without exertion hatched a Christ, Lawsuit-seducing Catholics thought their… Read More ›
Quand – l’argent – le métier – leur dévouement à l’art –
When – his money – her work – her devotion to art {The English version, though chronologically the first and perhaps freer of a foreigner’s faults, here follows the French, stanza by stanza. La version française, quoique écrit après l’anglais… Read More ›
Art, Sex, Politics (Serving House Books)
In a new, provocative collection of essays, William Eaton, the author of Surviving the Twenty-First Century, shares the pleasures of questions, tastes, reading and more visual arts. That we are animals, that is as sure as ever. How savagely we… Read More ›
A woman my views on (sex and on) women sought to gather
A woman my views on (sex and on) women sought to gather. We’re thinking of partnering; these seemed greatly to matter, Revealing whether I would do; or perhaps what she really wished— Was continuing on alone instead of love… Read More ›
Civilization and its Discontents / Malaise dans la civilisation
With apologies to Freud, three poems, none too serious. Que Freud puisse accepter mes excuses pour ces trois poèmes petits et légers. I The playground is quiet I can read in the sun The children confined to day care… Read More ›
The Limericks, Part II (Injustice, Trump, Illness, Poetry)
This second part of the limerick project—which began in May 2017 with Pence, Trump and Comey—focuses on injustice and other illnesses, as well as on poetry (and Trump). This part takes the collection from July 2 to August 12, 2017,… Read More ›
