poem: the sensual object as art rather than self-identification

beneath, inside, around her teeth - release a bloody sphere. how to interact with the object of desire, with sex as containedbut extraneous feeling, without putting it backonto the self. anon/ette, she watches it. the half of the film, grafted onto sleepy haze, becomesa tainted sunshine thing, carried aroundfor its potential - scraped away its… Continue reading poem: the sensual object as art rather than self-identification

poem: dates as sugar substitute

the mimed inadequacy - I would rather my motherheave me over the hilt. how much is forgiven - while I, in chosen purgatory, readdirty books - in the spirit of the literary and otherself-justifying ghouls. is the beauty the text itselfor the object the text makes andsurrounds - does one eclipse the other. how did… Continue reading poem: dates as sugar substitute

poem: Ash Wednesday

recovered anomaly, the zine has never been moredead. histrionic contrarian - she has recently been upsetwhenever she is located, discovered,identified. high in neuroticism and agreeableness - I am gladi do not live inside your head. we have all beenoverexposed to personality, if i am differentI am cursed - if i am the same - i… Continue reading poem: Ash Wednesday

poem: bad riddance

she is beautiful and so I don't believe that shehas suffered. now old memories chase me in suddensmacking throat-openers, like red orangeson a table, in a blue bowl -- as I am between ruins. like an old woman, I pick themapart, blood stains under my tongue. now, writing, nothing comes to me to be described:… Continue reading poem: bad riddance

poem: he likely would have found me by chance and declared me a talented writer

her farce was weirdly unenviable; she said -- this man, he would find little savior/fellow strugglerfellow bearer of what is what isand then (camera wink) isnt it so ironic to askwhat is, when we are standing here, and weknow. he would find this inme. i write my manifesto, i slug along to meetings with nothing… Continue reading poem: he likely would have found me by chance and declared me a talented writer

poem: swan song for november

the whole bedrock for our silly little post-renaissance project is underground; the women with longsilver hair construction vest gray/blue tennisshoes: I can imagine her as anythingelse. in linen and singing. please rip me open and countmy ribcage, there is an maladjusted chromosome there isa space. yesternight i was listening to the cranberries and i remembered… Continue reading poem: swan song for november

poem: do not ask me to eat when i am not hungry

in the room where the husband did not diethe third wife sits, splays, lacerated -- the birds are thick this time of year. I can feel the Feeling comeand I can feel the healing, but it is easier to curl into it. take this pain, this wanting tobe lacerated: and understand, this is where the… Continue reading poem: do not ask me to eat when i am not hungry

poem: geoff rickly only made it on the streets

television was his anti-hero; a thousand suicides is tolerable -- talent is its own expectation. sweaty brown-dimthrashing basement, my girlfriend says you smashed her sidewaysinto the makeshift stage and I licked the pale red cutson her shoulder - clean, her head thrown back and zombie hoteyemakeup, the malaise shaking shaking all of usout the bass… Continue reading poem: geoff rickly only made it on the streets

poem: purgatory

a long time ago, there was surety - i was god, i metanother god; he was wayward future kingholder in palms of myeventual, watery breaking - we arguedin smoke-sweat places about theology and whetherhistory is a stasis, is therea retvrn. he liked girls crouched over theirover-abstracted intellectual, embroidery-squaresmall experience. he fought with me, i fought… Continue reading poem: purgatory

poem: it is finally 80 degrees in october

little age of shame the wetness carries in the day-- i will return i will wear themark of the water, low hung frayed tee-shirt tied up, over tight bodyi now dig back into -- this bohemian stylethis little dark age, fallis dead: rise rise eternal heat. i can talk in French now about abstractthings i… Continue reading poem: it is finally 80 degrees in october