March 2011
1 post
MARCH The world swollen like a bee sting and then spring The world swollen like a bee sting, wet to the waist, frost-wrung and then spring The world sting-swollen, wet to the waist, frosted, raw-nosed, thaw-rotten and then spring The world swollen and wet, frosty, hostile and gray-lidded and then spring The world swollen and moldy, hostile and mildewed, slush-tongued, moth-soft, ...
May 2009
1 post
HESPERUS She sloughs off words like a wet dog....
April 2009
5 posts
THE FITFor Johanna and Paul on their wedding day...
OVERCAST
The weather promised storms. She waited,...
LATCH The gate was a compromise. If it were up...
DOLL Flea-marketing, I found myself as a rag...
WITNESS WAITING
This is how I knew that it was...
March 2009
6 posts
MEMESomewhere over Tennessee, there is a bird...
ELIJAH I always keep an open space. There is a...
IMAGE
By June she was showing up...
TESTAMENT
She tears a page from the Bible every...
BIRD
one day I’ll breathe the wind and give...
THIEF
She sinks into the battered couch,...
February 2009
11 posts
CARRY ONWhy do we name our angelsbut not our...
—LUSTERShe is living drowsy, unable to be...
UNTITLED
We went dark: seven months without...
WEAR There are bumps in her sleeves where her...
BIRTHDAY He plunked yellow candles onto a...
BITE
If only we had bitten when we had teeth,
...
SLOBSWe are slobs in the sunrubbing sand from our...
SUBJECT
I struggled to keep you in my painting,...
EXIT WOUNDS
We just missed the ramp you barked at...
SIGNORE SCATOLA
Bought a box turtle for a buck....
SENSE
Her daily rainbow’s only slightly wider—...
WAVELENGTH
She did one thing very well: she could...