Sweet Poplar
Sweet poplar, sweet poplar, you have become golden. Yesterday you were green, a wild green of glorious birds. Today you are bedraggled under the August sky as I am beneath the sky of my red [...]
Child Left Alone
When I heard the crying, I stopped on the hill and approached the door of the hut by the road. A soft-eyed child was watching me from his bed, and a profound tenderness intoxicated me like wine. [...]
“My Heart Cannot Carry The Weight”
My heart cannot carry the weight of your romance and gloomy storm until my tongue raises the bloodstained noisy matter that seizes it. Already my tongue, slow and long, is a heart, now my heart [...]
There is no Narcissus to speak of
When you’re 52 the mirror is the other. There’s no Narcissus to speak of, no passion in seeing oneself in the other. The water in the pond is pitiless, finally hard as a bad snapshot, [...]
The United Fruit Co.
When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, and Jehovah parceled out the earth to Coca-Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for [...]
Possession in the Dream
Come Beloved I will savor you with joy. You will dream of me tonight. Your body will end where the hour of your fertility and agony begins for me; and because we are full of grief my love for you [...]
The Geologist
Here was a sea a million years ago. Man does not know this, but the stone remembers. Break it: there is a crab in its guts, all stone now, a magnificent shape that refused to be dust. Before the [...]
The Condemned Man on the Pyramid
Stone upon stone the earth seeks the sky. Step by step my soles ascend to the sun. The hot coal of life still beats in my chest and idle now is the stone knife among these stones. If you are all [...]
