Passerines
I want to tell you about the thud against the back door, that my man says, “bird.” That later we see its tail sticking out from underneath the siding. That its tail feathers shine […]
I want to tell you about the thud against the back door, that my man says, “bird.” That later we see its tail sticking out from underneath the siding. That its tail feathers shine […]
I Google where I come from in Ireland, drag the orange man to street view and click the spin arrow over and over so I can see it all. I push the white circle as close as I can to the old house, wanting to sit the little man inside it. When I click on […]
They worry I won’t keep the graves when they’re gone. See my mother brushing off her hands at her mother’s grave, surveying lots, approving and disapproving care and neglect, my father deep in thought. The trees above them are the gods of Massachusetts, big- handed and quiet, tall fathers approving the play […]
1 The enemy descends through the trees and rises through water. The spring winds ripple the lake—opening salvos in the war against winter. The pulse slows. The hours open. Soon you will be presented with the enemy’s demands. Soon there will be a journey through a dark forest—every story you have been told […]
Not cantata—sonata. Whatever they were, the first birds of spring, the doctor kneaded your breast counterclockwise. Discovering the mass, he needled a bit of blood & core, asked me to push Print— a sonogram I could imagine Beethoven, maddened by syphilis or […]
Long days of rain a phone was ringing High over the steppes the wet Gables of the world immortal it was Our souls streaming into quiets Of woodgrain toward what Plane of convergence for years I could not Answer a music in pain the undying Will undying in […]
for our unborn son The cornfield winds its halo darkly Come home my little wet monster Time in the copper mine, time in the copper […]
I crossed a continent. I fell in love with a woman I’d never met. I lay in the fetal position as a woman I loved beat me. I masturbated in a synagogue. I ate kangaroo meat. I filled the bottom of a tent with vomit. I passed a kidney stone. My GI tract shut down. […]