Monthly Archives: December 2016

a beautiful derangement

the ambiguous pattern of Escher’s tessellated sky shifting, translating, turning about an axis he researches his poems by reading the daily news his perceptual art proudly insincere in its categories of disappearance simulated poetic thinking one more mark in an … Continue reading

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Late Night Processional

their lights have been left on so we can see how empty are their offices plants soon to be watered by people they will never meet in this towering cathedral of glass and steel the weave of metal roof beams … Continue reading

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beyond the usual tuning

from his own blue id in the instant that he sings out his melody we find a bridge a bandage for an injured ego then a bold opening to the sun not only for someone else but for his own … Continue reading

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Sextant

in the zone of avoidance poetry is our sidereal instrument measuring the major and minor streets of the pinwheeling galaxy of our own city dust clouds the milky way, starlight scatters the view beyond our own dwarf galaxy obstructed if … Continue reading

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Occupancy

skewed façade of palsied houses failing software at the headquarters of sheen the mark of the anonymous palpable uninviting concrete announces what matters within in the processed city of business affairs view lower floors here the building’s only public knowing … Continue reading

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Grounded

there’s my father’s ancient, rusting ship the one that I jumped from years ago grounded on this isolated, rocky shore where I wander beneath a sky full of light ocean glistening to the limitless horizon

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