Sunday, October 9, 2011

You Think Poetry's Your Dish?

For connoisseurs perhaps, but never
Something garish to be shown off

Nor set aside, tastelessly mistaken
For garnish on a glutton’s plate.


Saturday, October 8, 2011

On Juxtaposition

“What’s to be done or said in the meanwhile I don’t know,
and what is the use of poets in a mean-spirited time?”
—Friedrich Hölderlin, from “Bread and Wine”

Straddler across lines
Between the forces
Of good and evil

In these mean times
What we need from you
Now is more than just—

A position. 


Friday, October 7, 2011

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Do not disturb
The sequence—

Approaching the light-
Hearted play

Of wretched village urchins, low-
Flying joyful

Swallows cutting up patterns
Out of a sunless sky.


Thursday, October 6, 2011

Fed Up

It just so happens
I have exactly

What you need but
Not as much as what

You thought I had
The last time I had you

Eating out of my hand.
 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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