My friend If you were a very nice, capable and patient person, my friend Ivy was better than that. If you had an expensive dress, her's was even more expensive.  If you were really happy, Ivy would...

Held in hold we are hip to hip your palm pressed firm in the small of my back fingerprints left on vertebrae, the flexing of the chord in hold your heart beats in my chest and rattles bones, busting...

Coober   We know the list, but we still write it down: Milk opal, resin opal, wood opal, menilite, Muller’s glass, siliceous sinter, fire opal, Peruvian opal, black opal. The overhead projector...

Manuel Cortez and the Immortal Tree   "A tree that is left growing in its natural state is a crude thing”
Minamoto no Shitagō   There was nothing left for me except to chase the ghosts of...

Clinic I knock on the iron door. My knuckle bounces off the cold surface sending the sound back into the cutting air. I wrap my coat sleeve around my knuckle and I bang it again, thud, thud, thud,...

Mother St. Anthony, please look around; something is lost and must be found. She will find you. She will find you under bedsheets at night, she will work arrhythmias into your sleep. Your pupils...

In Transit The train hurries past sheep far too content to look up—autumn field, farewell. Dear voyager, cast aside your brand new guide book— see there, a castle! On a bare platform, girl hands...

The Mathematics Tutorial The length of your life, call it x, And time progress together until Some convergent finite point is reached. The rest of the world, call it (1-x), Continues on towards...

the poem in the courtyard outside in the courtyard bricks stacked into the shape of a submarine “it is a poem” she said “how can it be?” he asked “it must be either bricks or sculpture how can it be...

Must be and is One is the Echo of the street at four, the Bell and after as kids drift, small growlers into Evening polyester blue, and finished, stopped, the Bell at four o’clock you find it when...