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I Have News for You.(eleven poems)(Poem)
March 1, 2007...
There are people who do not see a broken playground swing
as a symbol of ruined childhood
and there are people who don't interpret the behavior
of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought
process.
There are people who don't walk past an empty swimming...
Description.(eleven poems)(Poem)
March 1, 2007...
A bird with a cry like a cell phone says something
to a bird which sounds like a manual typewriter.
Out of sight in the woods, the creek trickles
its ongoing sentence, with clusters of syllable
where it tangles and changes--from treble to baritone,
from dependent clause to...
Visitation.(eleven poems)(Poem)
March 1, 2007...
Now when I visit Ellen's body in my memory,
it is like visiting a cemetery. I look
at the chiseled, muscular belly
and at the perfect thirty-year-old breasts
and the fine blond purse of her pussy
and I kneel and weep a little there.
I am not the first person to locate god
in...
In Praise of Their Divorce.(eleven poems)(Poem)
March 1, 2007...
And when I heard about the divorce of my friends,
I couldn't help but be proud of them:
that man and that woman setting off like that
in different directions, like pilgrims in a proverb
--him to buy his very own toaster oven,
her seeking a prescription for sleeping pills.
...
Love.(eleven poems)(Poem)
March 1, 2007...
The man who cannot make love to his wife
with the erectile authority of yesteryear
must lower his head and suck her breasts
with the tenderness and acumen of Walt Whitman.
And if the woman has lost her breasts
to the surgeon and his silver knife,
she must hump the man's leg in the...