October garden, mostly dead Thyme sprawling incense underfoot And, of course, the marigolds Crazed stems, jungle cluster Bright torches glowing as from the well of a spiral stair These…

  after Chadwick Boseman Arrive when the theater is black. Your eyes aren’t adapting but you can see the blue lights of the stairs blur. Dots of blue where you…

  after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and the clearest images of the distant universe And now we see, all that universe, and the planetary nebula is the shape of…

  I could cut away. An apparent. Dead thing. To keep life I. Was farming by frost. Fog. Endless from over. The Coast Range. Birdless skies. By March. Staring down…

  Here is the tree that appeared as a moose covered in fog in the sleepless winter Here is a moose that returned to the forest in the bleach-drenched spring…

  I sit in the sun like I have so many times and can’t enjoy the warmth on my face, the pain claws too deep within my bowels, every organ…

  A vacuum starts in the foyer just there at 6:44 pm and drowns out the sound of Suspiria, so you pause and wait for it to stop. In electric…

 

  He keeps asking if we can talk but what he really wants is to sit on my porch again and listen to me play my country songs to the…

  for Robin Reagler Every archive is an elegy. The breach flutters with life & I make the stars into dust, hanging fires. Let the ghosts have fists. Our beatings…

  When I tell you that she is a palace Emily wants you to know that she is mostly a lasagna & she means it because there is no love…

+++ +++after Eduardo C. Corral’s ‘Ceremonial’ +++             +++++++Palms hammered, heart lanced, +++++I fall face-down             +++++++into our bed, sinking…