Illumination Through Verse

around around the labyrinth almost eight pm and still no sweater is needed rectangular stones still warm from the August sun curving this way and that filled in by a sort-of lawn not watered not...

my daughter is set to sail in two days time I think, it's fine no big deal we are so different we are so separate anyway but I awoke this morning at 5:21 tears already in my eyes and a soreness...

I don’t know this path to God where the men are shirtless and tattooed the women wear long patterned dresses and beaded earrings that hang down to their shoulders I’m afraid of the plants and the...

I cry for the coyote dead in the road his soft pink innards splayed around him in a half-circle his tawny furred form lying precisely on the double-yellow lines as if it landed on a bulls-eye I cry...

I grip with my mind I grip with my stomach and shoulders I grip with my anus I grip to keep from falling down down down into the special hell realm reserved for children and animals I grip to keep...

on this road I walk barefoot mud hard-packed or soft and wet rutted by wagon wheels from centuries ago on this road tall buildings sometimes explode and collapse on my right and great dark caverns...