May 1, 2018
The Cure
You start and then you make rules for yourself grad- ually It is predicament same how to live but why Animal habitudes so complex or am I an un- inherited […]
May 1, 2018
Morbid Florilegia (Part I)
flourish, the fanfare, the febrifugic feverfew. An oleaginous emplastrum—with horehound leaf, olive over olive, the oily parts, the dry. An antidote for the unblessed, the blistering, the dourly flowering flora, […]
May 1, 2018
Interior Landscape: 6:00 a.m.
Before I open my eyes, breathe in the soiled air from the construction site across the street, before I know whether it's cold or damp, or bright, recall whether I […]
May 1, 2018
Two Autumns, Saint Louis
Now do you know where you are? —C. D. Wright Calvary Cemetery Driving up Union to get there, all the yard signs saying, We Must Stop Killing Each Other— A […]
May 1, 2018
Garden
I walked in the romantic garden and I walked in the garden of ruin. I walked in the green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris who was ripped to pieces and reformed […]
May 1, 2018
Morbid Florilegia (Part II)
1st: Confirm the morphological integrity of the garden body. Safe-vouched, the plant-pressed organ herbarium unshelved (forget the blood and hairy root saw, the skin under its nails garden claw—weaselly with […]
May 1, 2018
Hawk Watching
Last year I saw a hawk catch a bird in my garden, and now I know how many ways predation can go wrong. It was early spring, and the dry […]
May 1, 2018
Polluted
it's so polluted so more and more polluted and hot Remember the year 2006 it was in the '70s at my birthday in November we saw a flock of parakeets […]
May 1, 2018
The Understory
Through this window, the way she is without me in the sycamore, fox squirrel descending to the understory, quick and timorous, deep of eye, small muscled forepaws. Past morning now […]
May 1, 2018
Apocalypto w/ Aquaria
Touching an urchin in the reflecting pool: Bennett says salt! Urchin: I say, anemone. Each day Bennett sings new syllables. Anemone alemony amelony a melody— We watch jellyfish: volutes in […]
May 1, 2018
Habitat Exchange
Calmada, Calmosa, California, Mar Vista, Ocean View: In duplicate languages street names proffer synonymous peace. The billboard offers "affordable luxury" — but the building is derelict no ocean view no […]
May 1, 2018
A Grove of Trees
The old women knew the men were police before I did, waiting for a bus when Vice surrounded me all dressed alike, as though plainclothes had only one meaning, of […]