The LimitsThursday, early, you reach them. Sometimebetween seven and eight. Somewhere betweenearth and sky, the one becoming the othera hundred yards further on, the whole scenea sculpture in ice,...

Blue Dodge Ram     Blue Dodge Ram an ‘85 pickup truck bought with my own hard earned money. As rusty as an old nail, it runs with a roar and a cloud of blue smoke. Intended to pull my...

Here, everything is still floating Within the foursquare edges of our world we hang, like flies in a web: now trembling, now resigned; then shuddering again, sudden as a broken leg.  One might...

THE GATHERING Come talk with mein spirit, wind voicescatching us, people of lovesmooth sighingthrough the trees, leaves ticklingas we fly over hills, a land of the...

Advice on the Death of a Loved OneSuspend belief,drag yourself to the margins of everything you think you are,(or thought you were)live in the empty spaces between wordsand the ringing of the...

ENGLISH SUITESWhen you wear those headphones I cannot hearwhat music you are playing, just the sandal-patterof silent keys making their mockery of silence.I lie on our king-sized bed behind you and...

On Considering Buddha While Pissing Buddha, decapitated and neatly mantledpeers frozenly at my navel.Two years to notice the absurdity of which she likes to call decor.Take Christ, who with open...

Sunset Somewhere Forgets Us And now all the birds are leaving this town,As the sun sinks,Mutters behind the climbing horizon. And I mean birds as in the feathered kind,All getting...

PheasantOften we’d find one dead in the road.Almost perfect. Maybe a small red smudgeon the breast or wing, like a thumb-print.The head would flop as dad scooped it uplike a rugby ball and stowed it...

Again with the thinkingWatching words(Trying not to waste them)Watching folk(Trying not to hate them)Watching sounds(What is that crunching?)Watching weather(Always something)Watching winds work(No...