Poems

As It Was Written Earth, earth, riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots, thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are […]

August 17th Good for visiting hospitals or charitable work. Take some time to attend to your health. Surely I will be disquieted by the hospital, that […]

August 8th And do not be indiscreet or unconventional. Play it safe. Listen here. I’ve never played it safe in spite of what the critics say. […]

Baby Picture It’s in the heart of the grape where that smile lies. It’s in the good-bye-bow in the hair where that smile lies. It’s in […]

Barefoot Loving me with my shows off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let […]

Bat His awful skin stretched out by some tradesman is like my skin, here between my fingers, a kind of webbing, a kind of frog. Surely […]

Bayonet What can I do with this bayonet? Make a rose bush of it? Poke it into the moon? Shave my legs with its silver? Spear […]

Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist’s trance, into a spirit world speaking with […]

Buying The Whore You are the roast beef I have purchased and I stuff you with my very own onion. You are a boat I have […]

Christmas Eve Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods— that present that I lost. Sweet girl, […]