A Necessary Answer:   It runs from me on the pavement, concrete stomp after concrete stomp. It hides in common corners, the corner bus stop with its cement bench that...

      Compass the lion in the lute or the lion locked in stone WALLACE STEVENS You gave me all the direction I could take; geographic, plus notes on my performance; that eyeless iron...

      The Implantations (sycamore) Nobody tells them this, nobody says it’s time to uncurl the fat green clocksprings of their hearts and no one invited them to do it here, the order...

      oracle and she said I had been a pig in rural Ireland one of Shakespeare's groundlings a Neapolitan song a Polish engine driver a map of Europe an incense bearer in Santiago de...

      Rain this afternoon it seems endless, the rain and full of the earth’s sadness generations of tear drops falling, undifferentiated flinging their million, million, million  tiny...

      Potential friend Blonde, slim, like summer weather, I am by The computer desk in the library black beading: something ruffled my feathers her tired brown hair; Miss Ordinary...

  Angel Way Back 6am streets is heaven all white cloud mist fog morning and look out of the dense gloom headlights coming out going past straight out of nothing straight on to nothing (work no...

    break up in the austrian themed fondue restaurant   his shirt matched the tablecloth his leiderhosen didn’t match the shirt nothing fits, I said. you picked up a cube of bread,...

  Signs   When I set out on my journey I shall leave home early.   I shall wear shoes that breathe slowly; button up my best coat.   My scarf will wrap itself around me, brushing...