Dear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart. Dear listener to the air’s brutal and gorgeous music, soft dancer to ballads...
It’s a shame this poem’s already been erased when I go to read it. Like humid air that tugs at my arm to catch what will fall, is falling, and falls. What’s up with erasing? Glue, scissors, and yarn make a shadow of barbed wire....
Words, like weeds, are sprouting everywhere. My mouth and throat are choked with them, wild fairy rings waiting to be gathered and dried. I pick through them and press them between sheets of cheap paper, stuff them into envelopes and mail them out to anyone who’ll have them. I’m...
The spoons have clattered Aren’t children little pears and observant birds I note that the green blanket is askew again briefly I have flung my sweater over the banister again The corn cockle is beautiful For months I’ve owed someone I’ll call Amy Rossini a...