Poetry
347 works
Before And Aftermath
A heavy frost on a clear night,
constellations telling their stories,
moonlight squandering its hold on darkness,
The Gospel Flesh
Flesh is god in all its forms
gobs of fat, skin on calavera bone
pink & mauve, its dews
A Bad Idea
The bad idea won't keep to itself.
It's knocking around the kitchen,
slamming cupboard doors,
waking up in the barangay
Jill is happy to be eating Tahô for breakfast,
Tatay finishes his morning prayers
and asks if I’ve had coffee yet.
banana bread
yellow-black caterpillar is overripe
banana. its little legs must feel like it
has walked lifetimes through wet,
Wax
Light a candle and curse the darkness
as I drip away like scented wax.
Counter-clockwise, you rinse our memory
Lilith in the Garden
They say the Garden was perfect, but she knew better.
Before the naming, she walked the paths as if it were a dream she had already outgrown.
Adam spoke of order, of roles laid stone by stone.
THE HELIX OF PERSUASION
We can’t go on like this,
pretending it’s about grammar.
The weight of days belies us out here
Alternative Lettuce Literary Technologies
Why was paper dried in squares?
90-degree angles arbitrarily over-determined the technology.
If paper had been dried in circles,
The Bird Artist
You only carried two books the Art of Birdwatching and the Bible.
You went on expeditions
in the hills of Transylvania-