Rainbow at Night
for Don Ramon del Valle-Inclan The train moves through the Guadarrama one night on the way to Madrid. The moon and the fog create high up a rainbow. Oh April moon, so calm, driving the white [...]
Cautionary
Mama called to ask if smoke alarms give death cries. Hers just now squealed, she said, and then fell to the floor. Yes, as I’ve been trying to warn her, there can be a high rate of [...]
The Shadow of Icarus
Catches a glimpse of his own shadow as he glides above silver meadows, his black opened raincoat expands on the hills that are covered with oil cold cherries gasp among his wings, He is [...]
All Lit Up, Combing Her Hair
Can’t be an ocean either waves of chair layer on her. She is drowning under the glory. Combing her hair in the waves. All lit up, the chairs run her down she parts them and combs their hair. [...]
Getting Rid of the Ego
It’s like getting married in the rain. A coach will pull up at the edge of the dam when the flood starts and the bride throws her flowers at the drowned. If you don’t believe this, go to a [...]
The Lion and the Lioness
When the land whitens with winter, You say, “I am lonely,” Or “I need more than this,” Or “What will I do now?” The lonely man keeps living, Half-starved and empty. The lion with his ratchety [...]
After Twenty Years
Somehow my hook got caught in the damn doorhandle. Those kids were playing the car radio so loud, when they spun out from under the trees, headed back toward town, they couldn’t hear me [...]
Little Mag
Spend three hours addressing envelopes. Bic exhausted. Towards the finish the hand finds itself totally unable to complete the tight circle of a letter o. The mags go out like ack-ack. In [...]
A Buddha in the Woodpile
If there had been only one Buddhist in the woodpile In Waco Texas to teach us how to sit still one saffron Buddhist in the back rooms just one Tibetan lama just one Taoist just one Zen just one [...]
