Naturally, broken glass, throbbing bass, a roll of bills and a paper bag passed between the hands of hustlers. Just as true: the rows of corn planted by the family at the end of the street. Even in this leaded...
A woman leans against a man who leans against a brick wall watching cars stop like dead men on this one-way street. Some dude glares like O-Dog from Menace, his face towards some street we'll never remember where a man...
This this will it always be, and why To ever argue for: here walking In its life, or sprawled, or loitering Down shallow valleys of the lawn: The trees that are there The pigeon bobbing through Its fallowgray ellipse of ground— The comfort of this ground Is physical:...
that I smile too widely, grinning really, and laugh too loud and often; that I walk with spring and sensual sway; that I stretch myself and twist like a cat baking in the backyard brightness; that my brain is sun-bleached, all rule and thought boiled away, leaving only sensory...
Tiger swallowtails hover over Russian sage— I smell eucalyptus where there is no eucalyptus and locate summer in rain. Like bats emerging out of a cave at dusk, a thread of grief unfurls in the sky. Neither you nor I can stop the planting of mines...
what if a much of a which of a wind gives truth to the summer's lie; bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry? Blow king to beggar and queen to seem (blow friend to fiend:blow space to time) —when skies are hanged...
A mango fell from a tree into a jaguar’s paws. It was late summer. The jaguar devoured the fruit and ran into the ocean. The ocean was turquoise like the August sky. The jaguar swam underwater for a...
A jaguar sat in a tree. It was midsummer. The sun was shining fiercely. The jaguar was a golden color with plenty of brown spots. Then the ghost of Emiliano Zapata walked by. He was in full uniform,...
In the month of cleaning family plots, I learned football among graves. All summer, fangs were plentiful. I fed only on fruit and acorns next to a nest built in a discarded doll marking the 50-yard line. ...