She’s slowly sipping orange juice.
He’s at the omelet station
waiting for his Western.
Last night, they were in each other’s
arms but this morning, if it
isn’t fluid it won’t go down.
And he’s famished, so he says,
so he’s off to see the expert.
She wonders why she chose bacon
of all things, tiny crinkled bits
of fried fat, like his penis
when he […]
The guys are tinkering with cars
and I’m in the field,
face to face with white blossoms
of a pin-cherry.
They’re up to their elbows in grease
while I inhale the sweet and sour of nature.
Any moment now,
they’ll have the damn beast moving again.
My vehicle, prunus pensylvanica,
is always where it is, where it needs to be.
Each of the guys learned […]
So ivy’s scaling walls.
But what if your name was Ivy
and I was as stiff and solid
as a wall?
And dinner’s sizzling in the pan.
But if you were the night’s meal,
would I be the pan,
the hot stove,
or just the cold plate on the sideboard
waiting to accommodate your cooking.
And it’s the month of May
and if your name was […]
Here, at the tip of this finger,
is the end of me,
mildly flirting with the ripples
of the duck pond,
wondering if that old otter
will poke out of the waters
and nip that wayward digit
or will he realize
that that’s where I leave off,
that I’m no threat
and there is no more of me
beyond the point
of my unconscious dallying.
As a definition […]
Shadows of late afternoon,
closed sign in a shop window.
dusk drives out the light,
tamps the business,
sends the people home.
I look at my silhouette
as I hang out here,
stretched interminably,
longer than I’ll ever be.
My flesh is so perilously close
to being just a tenth of what I am,
as I read the sorry tale
of Bessie’s luncheonette…
it’s much too late to […]
