Poetry

END SOLO

we move all the time we radiate in cardboard we radiate in history we radiate in paint we radiate phantoms we radiate indifference, in turn, saw the body as a boat housing the

Him and She

If I could stop and give what you wanted to see, still the axis by the flick of my fingers and pause this perpetual motioning, I would. And things would tilt and change

Summer Sijo 3

September shoulders in       bringing with him cloud-shine, shiver; the last waves of summer       raise their humming weight against the dark. Autumn is an infant: make new room, it says, for me in your

Baggage

lugged, tugged, hauled, wheeled out of the office of Psychiatrist So-and-So and onto conveyor belts attached by air to flight, time, destination always arrives later than usual in the decade and doesn’t

Proserpine

A wave’s white flag unfurls against the headland. We’re pleased with summer’s long foreseen surrender: hot noons betrayed by maples fringing umber, horny insects dying in the wetlands. You said