Duck, Duck, Goose
October 2, 2018
I wrote this poem entirely on trains. … More Duck, Duck, Goose
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Chaparral Fragments
October 1, 2018
I suppose it’s not a bad thing to surprise yourself now and then. … More Chaparral Fragments
Love Song for a River Bank
September 21, 2018
…if you know me, you might know the river bank the conversation starts on. … More Love Song for a River Bank
Fear of Missing Out
July 30, 2018
Night on the porch. Real darkness. The rain tries out some rhythms then shakes its head: “Take five!” The frogs advertise in the fields for all they’re worth. I’m not doing much. Vacation. There’s a blanket, a chair, the vague dark breath of the sea. I want to be composing, too: what’s my worth? Crack … More Fear of Missing Out
On Bodies
July 9, 2018
Some days, some months — let’s be honest, probably some years — my pants don’t fit. This is supposed to matter to me, and it does. In the drowsing noon, I was sitting outside and I asked the douglas fir next door about this. As usual, ki said nothing. Well, I thought, you get rounder each year! … More On Bodies
Before Ordering a Second Margarita
June 26, 2018
Walk out between the hydrozoans blooming on the beach. Or anyway, they’ve bloomed: clear jelly fingerprints, lavished on the sands: Cnideria was here. A few strewn blue-lipped bodies, still plump with sea-shout, sunlight shriveling. On what occasion did cold Pacific order such bouquets? Wrack line implacably delivers. Bare of foot to climb the rocks and ford the … More Before Ordering a Second Margarita
