I want again this cherry high of change of swings and ripped perceptions: To feed my brain on the acid novelty of stinging fiery new directions. I electrocute the mind with this new drug I push it into others’ hands with dilated eyes, Sharing sensations of searing mind-expansion I feel all that went before were [...]
Sweet God the world just changed I would have thought it would be louder or at least more people would have seen! Jesus weeps did you just feel that? The sun jerked and the light unclouded and I see the world is green! Read this part: tell me if it does it when you take [...]
Over the top of the book There is brown-or-yellow carpet and my feet. (I try not to trip anyone and tuck them under my plastic chair.) There is a smell of late last summer to the walls and the low drone buzz of waiting students. There is grey-or-yellow light. But the book—the breach! The sudden [...]
When my mind revs uselessly, empty, unable to think, my thoughts turn to things that please – for the neurons firing fruitlessly, only managing to blink, demand one thing of me: cheese. I stare, a little dazedly, at the fridge’s choicest curds, and select a slice or two on which to lunch – my neurons [...]
Flat-faced friend, I’ve missed you! And here you are, unchanged: though crated boxed and shoved away until I was at leisure once again. No creased corner, no flexed spine, No many-footed intruder has ingested or molested you: Faithful, flat-faced friend, I’ve missed you and here you are, unchanged. Dear friend, sit with me and feel [...]
If I were asked (and I have not been) How best to pave over the spiky weeds: How best to build the safest, surest path To lead to happiness: I believe: Start with the nourishing of the Earth; Find sunwarm soil and nightcold water. Find grains and graze; find fruit and dine; Find the warming [...]
Although I knew precisely what would happen when I did, (Or perhaps because of this;) I held off slitting the seal. The envelope, firm and transit-ready Could still be rejected: discarded, stamped/unopened, returned to sender, no known address, no recipient here to take a sliver of silver and slice the seal. But bound by the [...]
Still unwell, our resident poet is taking another couple of days off. Please be patient! She’ll be back soon.
I curved the arrow and tightened the bow, Twisting my barb before flight, I was warned such modification (couldn’t prove, couldn’t show) Would ruin my arrow’s height, Would skew it into the night, Turning its path from right, — but I cared not and let go. And how I was laughed at, how they laughed, [...]
My feet seem thick and mountainish Among the shadowed grass My movements those of a giantess By the late sun’s cast. Their final apricot rays are drifting And catch the clovers’ tiny faces A breeze from the west has been scented gold And promises over-the-hill places. The dog I walk with bounds ahead, Finds buried [...]
