Poetry
December 1, 2008
Found: the proper distance�Handprints the wind wiped away�Small cone piles where a bird claw raked the tension loose�Like crumbs � From a swath of sand, preimagined�History’s sputter, or granules of… READ MORE
September 1, 2008
Rooms opening into each other beckon, light filling each arch— not a railroad flat although I surely have lived in such in Chicago, Brooklyn. � Power, wealth require big �rooms… READ MORE
May 1, 2008
Caustic implacable poem unto and contra: � I do not soothe your minor� injuries I do not� offer I require� close history� of the case apprentice-� ship in past and… READ MORE
March 1, 2008
Peace is always somewhere else— in Utopia, Shangri-La, the New Jerusalem. Peace is the walled garden we never saw where erosion has made a desert. � Peace is always sometime… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
Important bloated men squat on the facts�thinking they can hide them with their weight:�men who think their power like King Canute�ordering the sea to behave, can abolish�the eons slow inexorable… READ MORE
December 1, 2006
Fires crackle in the brittle trees�bled dry by drought, the grass,�bleached straw on the dusty hills�where rain no longer falls�in what used to be its season. � Polar bears fight… READ MORE
November 1, 2006
(Translated from the Spanish by Margot Pepper*) � We’re tangled in a month of state testing�like insects trapped in the president’s spider web.�As we take it, we feel like bad… READ MORE
September 1, 2006
Photo Postcards: Island Woman (late 1800s) Look what he thinks he captured to hold in his palm,show-off like a tropical frogand send back home,souvenir in a square white box women,… READ MORE
December 1, 2005
Let not those who deny thee to us, �make of thee a graven image and invite us�to bow down to it � writes Saum Song Bo. He says, graven, an… READ MORE
December 1, 2005
Disassembled wonder: crates and a box of jangling bolts,�instructions: how to build a liberty � Longshore cousins of a Polish leatherworker, Irish farmer,�olive presser from Spain queued since daybreak�(thermos of… READ MORE
