“I always thought I was great but why does making it big take so long?” — Julius Eastman; with Arthur Russell, Gerry Eastman, Pauline Oliveros et al et al…

  i. If you make friends with fear, you’ll never be lonely. And who can feel lonely in a beaded cloak? Oblong yellow shards humming a bhajan or a warning…

after Adam Zagajewski I was trying to love the whole world as I loved one girl. Quietly in the dark she has pressed six blistering rows to her thigh with…

  there are too many creatures in the world find the monk seal or water bear purple frog whiling away hundreds of years hidden deep there are too many strange…

  In the dawn breaking over the trees, the wisp of sweet air. A ribbon of water seeps through ice rimes along the brook’s edge. The forest contracts and expands.…

  I lace my boots, part the branches to enter the woods and become its creature. The trail runs through a tunnel. The air’s cooler here, weed damp, dark and…

  “that/s a handsome young man” says a whitehaired world war ii vet w/ a twinkle +++ in his eye      “i betcha when he gets out of this…

It is a well, my body,/for the state/to pour their labors into,/my body. Put between bodies/assigned to me/because of my body. The right kind/of man teaching/the right kind/of bodies. What…

Vox, 2/11/19 I worry. Not the way I worried about the brown recluse of my childhood haunting the garage, the leaf pile, the specter of necrotic creeping sores; or the…

  One night, when you were still a child, the phantom lunged for your neck. Come morning, it was still hanging on, so you wore its darkness like a cape…

  It’s snowing on Jane Street and I wish Schuyler’s boots were kicking out from under his umbrella, or someone else’s boots since Jimmy’s dead and his would be a…

  We hunted houses +++++for cracks. Cellars for damp. Figured the age of roofs and how long they might hold. +++++Can you picture your lives here the agent asked &…