Explore Poems: Living

Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger…

Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
they reached through the windshield to pull me out
they …

In the sunless hour before day I hear the man I want
to love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a…

For the sake of argument, let’s say
the day my father outlawed all contact
between backhand and face, …

The money of  the mind is attention, maybe.
Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
but we…

You’d never call the branches
arms, though in certain
lights don’t pine and man
look like hands

conjoined…

I’m not the first man to lose his father
slowly, not the first to wonder
when I walk in the room if the…

I had it in the night, the image,
but lacked the energy or will
to magic my body through
my own fourth …

I was a forty-one-year-old rabbit
that year, which was said to be unlucky
for the rabbits to go face-to…

You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…

The doctor tells her what she can’t eat
no grains no nuts no beans no sugar a tomato is OK
but no skins…

A ball of  yarn is attempting to unravel my wits.
It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …

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The last time I lost you, I had turned
To salt. The hospice nurses all assured
An easier passing…

I'm a sea since I could never have been a river
An unchanneled sea
of green merriments
and solitary depths…

miss you calling me at work
leaving stupid jokes on my phone

like the one about the Arapaho, the Navajo…

Unto seventy years and seven,
   Hide your double birthright well—
You, that are the brat of Heaven
   And …

What if you come
Again and swell
The throat of some
Mute bird;
How shall I tell?
How shall I know.
That it is so,
Having heard?

"A car" "awash with blood" "Blood at our feet" "& I
& others" "have small springs" "of blood from our…

In church
we said Satan, get thee behind
and I always laughed. A demon child
with a twisted mouth,