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the
white

moss-
covered
wall

spotted

with
red

poppies
and

what
we
gather
are

bullet
holes.


(First published in the anthology How The Net Is Gripped: a selection of contemporary American poetry, edited by Rupert Loydell and David Miller, Stride, UK, 1992.)

"Definitely Not Lemmings" Number Eight

My thanks to poet Allen Braden for joining Definitely Not Lemmings; you can find out more about Allen here, and also read one of his many very fine poems.

Mythos

As long as you wish
I continue,

You have to go back.

(First published in Poetry Salzburg Review #2, Winter 2001/2002)

Lustily

from the dingy
balcony

the housewife's
crisp

white under
pants

and sheets
applaud

accordingly.

(from The Intricate Evasions of As)

Alter Ego

Simplicity

.

Do you mean
What you say?

.

Of the utmost
Complicity.

(from The Intricate Evasions of As)