Category Archives: Poetry

  Ponytailed Erinys   The greyness when It gets late brings The challenge of reality In the form of The Washburn Cheerleader Ponytailed Erinys returning Erinys who walks in darkness Who strips her clothes off And hangs them in a … Continue reading →

Another Itasca   It’s here of course in The blondes all the blondes In sunglasses and jean jackets That barefoot girl running to Some assignation carrying Her sandals the braid flapping Down the middle of her back Or the other … Continue reading →

Lucky   We meet on the stairs She’s always late has A job selling candy On the other bank Just before class She sits next to me Stretching her legs Tight white pants feet In and out of moccasins Outlined … Continue reading →

  Razor Point II Redwing sweatshirt green rain slickerBut not a sincerely ironic rugby shirtMuttering over some tear or stainWar Story Science Fiction Mental IllnessAll in one (relatively) thin ponytailed volume All of them insufficient models of realityLegs out on another … Continue reading →

Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows?     — Swinburne  

  Remains   The thought That you’re nowhere But in the earth   Not even Ruined beauty Only simple remains   Lying beyond recapture Falling before achieving This age of ridiculous desire  

  Eastern Western   The feet of the dance hall girls shuffle As they can can off the dusty stage Bending to toss their red garters Souvenirs of a paradise That’s always a border away   Wagon wheels turn and … Continue reading →

  Supernatural   At that time There was only the slightest Element of the supernatural In her face And demeanor   She knew what the rest Of the world did not – that This second immaculate conception Was the result … Continue reading →

  Skeletons   Doll art Asphyxiation Stepping toward me Still pushing her Coat away delivering Little exclamations driving Us to eventuality to The extinction of experience The realm of the foraging hand The skeletons inside us Finding strange company In … Continue reading →