The game is set, the lines are drawn
between the rosebush and the lawn.
Squares of chalk encircling
O
Fe
Zn H
N
As
Forming molecules, compounds, bonds.
The children don’t care,
I thought that if I could begin in a pasture, an indigo
river stretched out next to me.
But there’s no way to begin or enter in. I only
opened the door
This summer, in the middle of my poetic journey, I lost my way.
For twenty years now I have invested in the craft of poetry, and, though it’s
taken some time to
Giddy should not be a word in the vocabulary
Of your face. The expressions that sing terrible
Things needs always to represent terrible, as in Ivan,
As in serial murder resulting in lampshades
Death is too abstract a term; nebulous and murky, accreting all life to itself
with an omnipotent gravity. Poets have a knack for hearing terms we can touch.
For example:
The maggot no