Distracted by Earth’s magnetic field, pulled away from their own survival, birds, in their primal journey south, sometimes deviate from the flight path. Even birds stray. And me? I…

  We were saying goodbye, you looked down and joked that I had something on my feet. You didn’t fool me. The sun had drawn two white Xs where that…

  But only in my plans. In my plans, I am cutting through the light of the unvisited park library. I am sitting in a coffee shop on the other…

for Cosimo On earth I had nothing to do but bleed. We had gotten into the habit of sharing dreams. The mud in the favela. Trucksters. A lake. —when I…

  [ ++++] was an immigrant I fell from a cloud [ ++++] played piano [ ++++] jumped off a bridge [] can tell you this now That we’re not…

  Dense spearmint, forest green, tender bending, how the tree accepts the shape given it by wind and by shadow. Shadow of industry, of church-tower and the taller heads of…

  Failure to launch, caramel in the airport. +++++Please listen closely as the options have changed. I got the husband in the blue cotton plaid, we’re watching ads ++++for Amex,…

  I’m on stage in my underwear. Light +++++spears the hangar, gouges both eyes, ++++++++++like consciousness. The dancers: ++++++++++ muscle or mechanism. I: car-doll, +++++left hot. They know where ++++++++++my…

  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…