Poetry
Summer 1993
Suite for Emily
1. The Letter Everywhere the windows give up nothing but frost’s intricate veined foliage. Just engines shrilling pocked and frozen streets wailing towards some new disaster. No bright angel’s ladders […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
Lost Fugue for Chet
CHET Chet Baker, Amsterdam, 1988 A single spot slides the trumpet’s flare then stops at that face, the extraordinary ruins thumb-markedwith the hollows of heroin, the rest chiaroscuroed. Amsterdam, the final […]
Poetry
Winter 1991
Carnival
Barcelona Sure the advertisements are full of advice. They beseech everyone to get drunk or go on vacation, to keep journeying to fill the wrenched vacancy, keep moving forward to find […]