Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Staking out the Usual Suspect


Stick to your MO, gumshoe— 
Stare out the window 

Long enough, no matter what 
The view, you’ll see 

The frame becomes you. 



Monday, July 16, 2012

Hung up on the Goddess


God, I’m a hopeless case— 

Where other mortals see 
Wave after wave of ripples 
Caressing the shore, 

In the foam of my mind I see her 
Multitudinous immortal nipples 
And still thirst for more. 



Sunday, July 15, 2012

Calling Card


Where oh where are the cicadas? 
You can hear their quivering 

Insistence in the pines but never 
A sign of their presence in the air— 

Only their empty shells at the end 
Of summer remind you 

They too were there. 




Thursday, July 12, 2012

Out to Lunch

And offline until Sunday while I escape to the shores of the Ionian in the company of George Seferis (actually his spirit as revealed through his books, but you knew that).

Coming Up In The World


Where once there was 
An outhouse 

With swatches of news 
Paper nailed to bare brick 

Wall next to a hole, 
Now indoors 

A fine vitreous fixture 
And a roll 

Of soft ass-wipe unwound, 
Touching cool 

Marble floor. 


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