"Self sabotage observed from a distance"
Four stools down One of those elemental issues Mushrooms and spores out bitter. That DNA thing, reptile baggage, Still lies between them Coiled up tight Afraid to look scaly But prepared to slither. Her incisors jaw-clack Then close to break...
"A poem I wrote about my wife seven years before I met her"
I am left here descended from these fathersCaught in the glare of suddenIllumination. Oh, you know the fathers I meanThe ones who chantIn the catacombs of heartGiving voice to low murmursThat hold time togetherWith wattle,And daub,And spittle,And hopes. Dwellers where...
"Anticipating an initial encounter with a new lover"
The bed a wreck of first coupling, And morning shadow Slipped dishabille around you. You would sleep, Eyes tracing some trigonometry of dreams, I suppose Surveying distances. What nervous sculptures Would we chisel With bare hands from flesh? What equations...