if not for her being trapped in the cheap seats Lying to her new friends about it all.
Category: 4
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 … More
Abandon. Azimuth. Now.
Take your mayor w you Your pimps Your whores Your civil engineers Your baseball scores “Welcome to the wood-chipper” … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
She looks totally Persian, but man, she, she is pure Mongol (Nick Cave concert, DC, 2023)
she’ll rip your lungs out, Jim
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 … More
Annabelle al Austin
Fred’neck “I’m easy << Neither of us is easy Mayfair “I knew you could have made that travel more cheaply … More
We could never be friends
Nonetheless, I can tell you fer nothing that you are interesting like me, and you deserve … something. I can … More
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 … More
jack, dog, dust
if only i knew that table rock that saddle gap i would lie me there until i too, turn to air … More
jack, dog, speaks at the captain’s funeral
them heathen took you, my captain, yes you, my captain my commander, my every thing my only thing yes, you, … More
jack, dog, awakes (my sky fall down)
my sky collapsed like a continent my voice broke in that thin air before you up-seen, then carbine-down those … More
Burden of family, unassumed
Word on the street is that Don is going to move, again. I’ve heard authoritative sources say that Don’s recovery … More
Out the tailpipe in the mouthpipe
Joe, NPO
cloverleaving through the night cleaving unto what’s right seething, disbelieving: they chickens they goats “don’t trust a man with a … More
Song of the crow-keeper in the desert southwest, v0
That very afternoon among the licking of tattoos, the kissing of scars, that bevel edge, the dolphin side, the pain … More
“Crows are smart”
T told me: “Crows are smart” then “You’re a different person from when you walked in here, your posture, the … More
Mercy. Road. Thrill.
What is: Kill
Sevilla: The elephant he come for the bull
The elephant he come for the bull the nod of heads, the “ Okay, my friend … “ the trunk … More
Crow decides, Crane rues
Crow makes a decision Crane rues his folly Crow, ”I shall land … there.” Crane, “Had I only … “ … More
Of crows the left-behind
This winter sees the bitternings of crows the left-behind of crows unsuited for flight of crows ill-equipped for animosity of … More
How do we, dolphin, kill him, shark?
How do we, dolphin, kill him, shark? How do we, eel kill her, urchin? How do we, bee, kill him, bird?
Then Hong Kong, the snowboard, the concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the TS Eliot
@ LTF … Then Hong Kong, the snowboard concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the Peper-gone, Haley her mother, her migraines, her … More
Our son took wing without a prayer
Last night When the moon reeled When the gulfstream veered: Off the white cliff Took wordless wing Our son, sans … More
The mine, she always win
Eats her youngLike her brother the church
She bloom a hate flower through the bone crack
She aborted, I yielded
Imperative Summer with Sadie, College Park, Maryland, 1998 Dance with dog sisters in the sky, Fireflies and flickering stars, You … More
Un-jig, (traditional, as sung by the mother-in-law)
i had a daughter-in-law, where god often will put a jaw, that girl had a circular-saw she ripped my boy … More
Young lieutenants at End-Evening-Nautical-Twilight
180 miles east of Los Angeles’ pointless summers ran shaven, heady, lieutenants low-spark’d, high-heel’d, bat-faced wayward boys, they counted coup … More
This was the worst victory
At the 3 cuchillo strikes it take to put him down down This was the worst death, the worst fight, … More