Monolog of an Effigy
When my charitable fellow-writers were burning my effigy and not poking my guts with their pocket-knives — thank God! They wasted on me their bottle [...]
When the Snakes Arrive
My mother walks from the porch to the backyard to scatter a fist of wildflower seeds she gathered as a child. There is a twinge of pain. She is afraid of movement in the hedge. The seeds descend, [...]
Voice from the Wreckage: Flight 1016
Circle my smoldering bones, wrist-hinge and shin. Shine your false light, searching for what I am not. And when you stagger upon my lone gold ring, you will be wedded to absence. I am a [...]
Against Ecumenism
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. — I Thess. 5:2 A Japanese apocalyptic cult (It’s on TV), impatient with the wait, Decides at long last [...]
“No Hand Holds Me Either”
NO HAND HOLDS ME EITHER, I was born just like you were, and no one throws me luck in this hour, no different than you, who’s immersed in bull’s blood like me, yet the numbers stand ready to light [...]
“Where I Forget Myself”
WHERE I FORGET MYSELF in you, you become idea, something rustles through both of us: the first world of the last wings, fur grows over my thunderous mouth, you don’t come to.
