Under this Iowa sky, rain falls in slits around us the glittering eyelashes of angels who pray at god’s cloud-marbled floors. My breath is…

Do not forget the netting. Whatever you have done to me I will not be carried away by it. To rejoice is a ghost of the mind chemically…

Trees blush more deeply than we can — with leaves the color of the inside             of leaves — if foliage were as red-blooded as five o…

My Pavels knew how to play soccer before I did ‘cus they played with socks rolled up into a ball in the streets in another life my name…

Low among the gulls this time it was not you who found me heedless the reeds bronze smell of men who started drinking early there are…

I once watched a cow give birth             in the middle of a highway. Out of her opening fell an opening, wet and brown and trembling…

I too am gathering the vulgarity             of botany, the eye and its nuclei for mischief. Of Man, redacted I came, am coming…

“ ” We have a soft spot for drama,             and for memorization; we like to share whatever we have been told.             We liken…

the villagers are watchful in their booths at boston market the boys living on sulfur and talking about feelings and memory the united…

Save your congratulations and your flowers My baby is sunbathing on the moon And with the eternal blue light she glows In her clear house…

The stones come to dance; parachuting up, four black rocks gasp slowly for air like fish in a daze. My feet dart ripples in the water…

A car’s tires thu-thunk over the rubbery black trip wire at the oil change, triggering a fat bell, and a group of girls in silver…

We died one by one, each plumper than the mirror saw us. We exited obligingly, rattling key chains and cocktail jewelry, rehearsing our…

I know the dead are watching me naked. It restores me. We spoon and fuck harder than all their sick-loving widows, widowers. There’s the…