Words
No Language
For years I’d see Tim free fall from some height while sitting still in the backwoods of his life after his wife died of alcohol poisoning...
the form of a tempest
and sometimes it doesn’t rhyme but just seeps out like effluent washing over the cobbled streets of a town you’ve never been to and stumbling, burdened with the mannerisms of...
Another Black Floyd
George, I don’t know how many of us are herewho share your Texas lineof long chocolate bodieswho can dance on and off...
No such thing
Fate rides on fiery tracks
as the warmth of the flame
creeps from underneath the doortell...
For the Sake of Strangers
No matter what the grief, its weight,we are obliged to carry it.We rise and gather momentum, the dull strengththat pushes us through...
A Real Estate
I live in a borough called Beauty,
at the end of a street called Strife,
and...
Recovering
Recovering Irecover likestrength sappedfrom maple treesawaiting
syruplike a broken
stirrupon a runawaysteed
its...
When we howl
When we howl, we howl as oneAgainst the breakersAgainst the silenceAgainst the bone
When we howl, we’re calling to...
‘Hope and the Odds Make Poor Bedfellows,’ JL
The celebration in Wuhan is a galaxy of lights.The temporary hospitals are torn down, the mallsare reopened. A man fixes his daughter’s...
quarantined thoughts
i had my thoughts in quarantine but somehow they got out and now they’re loose on the town and moving aboutand if you feel anxious you...
Tell me again
I am the tinker-toy derelict in the corn;you are the plucky jalopy in the public pool.I mean to say, meet me in...
