Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Snakey in the Bluejay's Claw


It looks
like something

tried to find
God with a snakewhip.

How can you
blame an instrument?

How can you
blame a bluejay

when he poops
out of a cloud animal,

allegedly,

disrupting the Anthropocene?

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Feeder


I anticipate
the shadows of birds.

This house
full of worlds.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Psalms


We live
amongst

this decay

in which
even churches

are condemned.

The first
thing to go

is the organ.

Sometimes,
in the silence

between

passing trains,
you can hear

the earth
reclaiming her songs.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Patty


All I remember
about my kindergarden

teacher is that she
was a huge old lady

with gigantic cellulite triceps.

The big bertha
of birth marks had risen

on her left arm.
My friend Mike said

it looked like a sausage patty.

               He was right.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Silverhawk


The city crumbles

round and
round.

The treeline
hangs

like scrap metal.

The crimson
horse is wheeling

In the
cryptic fringe--

this skyscape undertow.