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[CAUTION: READING THIS STORY COULD CAUSE IRREPARABLE "CULTURE SHOCK" AND IS NOT ADVISED FOR OLD FOLKS, PREGNANT WOMEN, OR THOSE WITH "MONSTROUS, FRAGILE EGOS"!]
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I look as sympathetic as I can, under the circumstance, which is entirely unsympathetic.
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The condemned, arrested/
and convicted as a consequence/
of cheerlessness, must be prepared
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It was a bright day in April, the cruelest month, and the gears and pumps of the train beat on into the still air.
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The bird sat there some time. Several minutes. My wife and I grabbed out i-Pads and took pictures.
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contacts, false eyelashes, strappy open-toed sandals
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Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh; the rhythmic thrust of Mezereon’s wings…Th-Bumm, th-bumm, th-bumm; the drumming of his heart…Hooou, hooou, hooou; the exhalations of his breath…
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Wind was a sorry excuse for force
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Frank was happy to leave the art show and take the train back to SoHo.
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Today, the buxom neighbor carrying blintzes
Egged me not to care about
What’s not flat. She forgot
To bend, clanging together
Some fronts and sides.
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I visited his loft last week. There were many exciting new pictures. Francesco was your main money earner before, now he will be again.
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Picture it-/
air not clogged with the shit//
that makes Beijing the dark joke/
of the developed world.
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“I love women. They’re like goddesses.”
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We are our own pathogens.
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My Mother always said that a storm was death knocking.
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her expressive sigh releasing. Sated. The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption.
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Thus, more people can drown//
and leave their bones
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People act, today, as if there were no such thing as Death - i.e. they "psychotically" reify the notion that we "live on" in our work or more pointedly/poignantly in our offspring and in society qua Creation. This tendency was half present in the old Greeks - the …
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Sometimes the wind comes across the fields and you would swear that it can be known. Going along the one lane there I look out and see those vast spaces and then refocus on to closer on. Swinging the truck into a side road that goes far and far and then left, I pull into…
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The screen door slowly opened. I was expecting the second / coming of perfection.
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Star-eaterHere lies the star-eater.Tilting on the ancient wheelof summer-glaze-breath,you speak the oceans. Fire's the mealfor you, the star-eater. You defy death,and out of your mouth, a universe openspouring forth, as fleet as the starslight on your tongue. Space…
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I am the ocean. My soulless organs live in all of its motionless movement. I am the low. The high. The in between. I am nothing. Back and forth, I simply float along: existing, rising, and then falling into a life that can be considered one big decision left…
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Like a scroll spinning swiftly before his eyes, he deduced that the tracks around him could have been left by nothing but a dragon. “Father God, protect her,” he said as the gravity of Isabella’s situation hit him.
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I made a man of men. He made a man of me, the way all men are finished, in tragedy and sorrow. Together, we make a story, for other men, brothers and sisters.
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Green is the color of emeralds, jade, and growing grass. In the continuum of colors of visible light it is located between yellow and blue. Green is the color mostShades of green desireIn the Category: Shades of green Green politics meet…
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I hand one of them the octopus and run out of the room.
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They prize how she makes shit up on short notice
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Charlie Hancock missed the bus. Started walking.
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