not time sheer walls exposed  not time undid it  full of horizon golden shouldered  slot canyon an overlapped kaleidoscope  each time reaction mirroring the previous before magnified  undimmed  the aftermath is goodbye  it was beautiful ~ pond by the library in a matter of thirty seconds I saw a mink carry off a fish shelved […]

Come Out of It  Now look at the knots you knead between  the next instant and its spinoffs, how they simmer  soup behind your forehead. You are hooked  to poke-fingered what-thens. So certain of them.  You know every crisp moment surprises, yet  there goes your breathing all thin again.  Remember how firm you were in […]

A retreat. the autumn each year smelled like old crates of apples. and winter the softness, a skin- wrinkled must. and the house was his passed-away uncle’s house next to an orchard; he had plans for it, he told us, through the smell of old fruit – it would make a perfect guest house; had […]

English Teacher She is the neighboring tree in the yard That will name every branch, Every flower becomes an apt remark, Every star a word to be chanced, The garden of language arts.

summer rebirthdeconstructing wallsbuilt by cold years,my hands are no longer brittle,my blood has begun to warm;it all now comes so easilysavoring daybreak frost from her last kiss,discovering constellations in her freckles,chasing sparrows in her eyes,this is my home,i am home. ~ floorboard truthso full of excusesfor why things don’tget better—i write poetry for no one […]

Sand Where now a thousand thousand houses bake in the summer desert sun, there were once lolling sandhills as far as Slover Mountain, surrounded by the endless geometry of dark green orange groves. The limestone mountain was ground down over the years to make concrete to make the stucco houses that crowded out the groves. […]