When I cry,
My life murmurs in red.
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In the recital there are some mistakes.
We all make mud of our music sometimes.
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His hair is silvered like song,
And he seizes me in my depths.
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Careless Skin, Uncivil Eyes
My hair is easy to please –
Satiated with soft careless skin
And uncivil eyes.
The ships on the river
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Love goes with you.
Your hands glaze me with pride,
a good disease.
Your teeth write me in anger -
Your kiss a knife in another dialect.
In the river,
The dead wash themselves among the stones.
Your pretty lips alight on my breasts
Your hand is on my belly,
taking my soul away.
Between the rippling river reeds,
A timeless photograph
of vice and virtue.
Erasure Poetry
Time
In a journal in well written white,
the presupposition of posies,
the assumption of risk.
Beyond books,
cinders drift lonely through cities
too hot to feel their burn.
All that dust
that pushes pavement forward
to an unforeseeable finale is from
dust to dust
in a fourth world, my mother
cooks salmon on a simulated Saturday.
On a Sunday superimposed on the
wall of my one thousandth year,
my daughter wears sapphires,
asks me for a pond.
Age burrows in me like a tick.
I will write it away.
Mascara Woods
The inept snow crowds
around the fire,
plotting and dying.
Some terrains cannot be traversed.
In the mascara woods,
children clump together
in the latest
cloud of today’s breath.
Bleary eyed,
the fox fixates on his quarry,
the weakest of the drey.
Remove
Cut the phantom from my back.
I am unannounced and unfrequented.
A wavelength no one sees,
a dizzy, dazzling particle
known to science only as
“effusive missing.”
Schrödinger’s dancer dancing in
the dark.
Remove from me the red, digitized light
of sovereignty and certainty.
Faults
I’m free of rain.
I show my picture to the mirror.
I was not busy in my shiny days
and now I see
clouds of supplication ahead,
burning bronze.
My shape shifting selfishness
Folded into a skin box,
Origami.
My life was born for a while,
between sameness and joy.
Ten times I memorize myself,
candy candle
I have to light,
To guide kaleidoscope perception
Back home to me.
Interdependence is difficult and soft,
ad infinitum.
Escaping the Warren
The simple grave
of the rain.
The driving wind
makes tracks through parched prairie.
The leanest rabbit escapes the warren.
Teeth marks, bone, thin hair.
Beyond the metronomic society
nourishing sustenance.
This field is sacred and untouched
by the rushing realism of
corporeal men.
Through the bladed brown,
The cottontail prances,
grateful and alone.
Dead
Dead now, I move to the grass
and develop a conscience like film.
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In the cemetery
trapped sin and simplicity
tinged with regret.
Under beds,
bruised bits of life.
I have called the wind
on my trite telephone
to speak with my lover in
the vintage language of distance.
The comic book store has
Only tragic books left.
One hero is asphyxiating for fun.
Another scrubs dishes in rum.
Beasts –
blue built and bundled,
and bridled brides.
Brutes weaving wispy webs.
Miniature Moon 