We begged our children as bats To eat the insects of our existence To guide us deaf, lacking radar To…
Since 27 October, Israel chooses to sow the wind
Dread the harvest decades hence the children of Golda’s army of orphans
FDR. Bibi. Bush.
knew.
Murder-hornets shiv’d our cicada brood, film at eleven
17 years Brood Sup On pomegranate sugars, dates and the pollen of poppies. Cicadas rise great of expectation End having…
She’d have hung her Persian flag, all upside-down tulip, over the terrace like any moonshine clitoris (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)
if not for her being trapped in the cheap seats Lying to her new friends about it all.
Opium-addled herons return to roost
Wasps, once having flown Past Bobbing islands of our own making Littoral trenchworks Synthetic archipelagos Set Provinces aflame Get Under…
Birdwatchers in Beijing laugh, watch the addled swallows of your Opium Wars return to roost … cuidado amigo
There shall be no plums this year of the Rabbit
Forgetful typhoons neglect their duties, they Wander, off-course, into harmless seas, to Awaken only sleepy anemones, leave Lonely, Our sad…
All these years, praying to the wrong rock? Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods
Doubt not the geometers of spiders and gods They’ve directed us to the incorrect rock So we pray the…
1,000-year-old Palestinian olive trees burnt down by Israeli settlers
Observe,the riverine coals that were once the heart,the entrail intestines of olive treesturnèd as marrow the splintered bones of your…
Give a Zionist a badge …
Filastine, get thee to the Sinai, the Sahel, christen thy Muslim hell
Talib-on-Parade | Cicadas (orig)
Oh, sure, you salted cicadas and smiled, but We scorpions We expect a yield We harried hornets to hysterics and…
David become Goliath
Handfuls of heads for the hoisting
Billion-dollar brick
1 more brick in 1 more settlement Mister, that’ll cost you 1 billion dollar
Abandon. Azimuth. Now.
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper”…
Welcome to the wood-chipper (ded to Zach de la Rocha)
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your professors Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” Same…
Plankton are voting with their itty-bitty pennyloafer plankton feet
Talib-on-Parade | We sow hornets and cicadas
We have sown hornets and cicadas These 17 years, the brood sup on pomegranate sugars, dates and the pollen of…
Hornet infects heron
Hornets of oblivion Infect herons of mud With ass-piss blood Once only neglected Seeded herons dare chase alien sun
Father speaks to fern, crocus, moss (Croatia, 1999)
“I fail to feed your children I, mere stripling am at-struggle with scree.” Up from the valley grass to the…
Upon once meeting the Queen of Persia (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)
After her father’s death: She had expected an uplifting She had foreseen an exaltation There had been signs There were…
She looks totally Persian, but man, she, she is pure Mongol (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)
she’ll rip your lungs out, Jim
Expel me from the small sugar ship
pain like bands o rain spin off a hurricane and no one is safe the sugar ship stands out of…
That girl, drowned in Astoria, Oregon
that boy nailed a board across the pier’s pilings one summer night. that girl climbed to its top, dove the gangle-thin boys froze in…
Annabelle al Austin
Fred’neck “I’m easy << Neither of us is easy Mayfair “I knew you could have made that travel more cheaply…
Calvo at the beach
Virginia Beach did it rain that evening at the show? did we kiss on the bus the way back? i…
We could never be friends
Nonetheless, I can tell you fer nothing that you are interesting like me, and you deserve … something. I can…
Grandpa Goodyear
The vein in his neck blew out like a tire, At eighty miles per hour.
April lost her mind, 3 birds down, a shabby rain
April rained 3 birds Onto our front porch Poorly-inflated balloons they, their Fetal fledgling claws, their Yellow smiles, half-baked Turnèd…
On fire go horses to corral (San Joacquin Valley, 1991)
Condor wingbeat Eyes sharp for fresh meat Dive the chaparral On fire go horses to corral
Kosovo, 1999: Flowers have gone to children, every one
I forced did make the mountains a hard home for my children slender I forced on them such leaves and…
Your bolt extractor eyes
captain, look at me your bolt extractor eyes jack, dog
jack, dog, dust
if only i knew that table rock that saddle gap i would lie me there until i too, turn to air…