dark street
someone’s weight in fireflies
suddenly takes off
*
before dawn
a stranger’s footprints
cold ocean fills
*
beach before dawn
in dark fragments
finding myself
*
before dawn
where waves break
my thoughts break
*
Descartes, a crow
seeing the world
seeing its beak
*
walk miles of sand
to get from ocean
dark wave energy
*
spring window
an aphid
draws in my breath
*
walking miles
next to waves breaking
everything I know
*
snowy vineyard
a fox and a crow
pretend they’re strangers
*
cherry blossoms
two crows chase
absolutely nothing
*
my little black cat
rubs her fangs on me
her strange pet
*
pencil on my desk
next to a few shark teeth
its ancient fang sharp
*
morning reaches
the far side of the river
before us
*
spring goddesses
the lady with 37 cats
disgusts and awes
*
streetlights twinkle
out in the dark river
a piece of you swims
*
a goose neck
in morning glories
we’re not ourselves
*
moving an aphid
from bathwater to plant
a born-again drunk
*
mother says
teeth marks
on sea things
*
it’s not just
an aphid on my finger
it’s a “rescue-aphid”
*
sparrows take
milky splash baths
in potholes we curse
*
the mouse hole…
nature leaks in
a nuclear plant
*
a mouse hole…
nature checks out
our nuclear deal
*
dragonfly hovers
in a cooling tower’s
nuclear breath
*
sealed nuclear
power plant in the river
dragonflies visit
*
moonlight
like Brahms
for dragonflies
*
a thunderstorm
sweeps the flags
off all graves
*
hissing rain sheets
old woman who died years ago
again sweeps our street
*
long ago
in the wind
witches sang
*
the kiss
first draft
witchcraft
*
the bobcat
climbs and climbs
spring ideas
*
picking wildflowers
a field once our house
our dog guards below
*
raking leaves
my dead neighbor’s dead dog’s ball
rolls out
*
my old street
only familiar faces
the clouds
*
buried child
a plastic kickball
hides in the basement
*
he keeps keys
to houses and beds
long gone
*
moon shines
coldly on a ladder
apple pickers forgot
*
a stone thrown
into the dark river
makes good time
*
late night rain walk
the past’s umbrella
opens its arms
*
heavy rain
falling asleep
between sympathy cards
*
in a pinch
headlights in rain
for moonlight
*
humans
the future’s
unreadable format
*
that sunflowers climb
that sometimes people fall
naked from the sky
*
a field stone
for doorstoop
blunt speech of home
*
a crow’s cry
just beyond a windowsill’s
glass button jar
*
her clothes donated
her glass jar
of buttons stays
*
shaving
the old cedar box
for new scent
*
Stone Age ends
stones struggle
to find work
*
surf pebbles
toss-talk
in their sleep
*
dark country roads
trees much taller
than their houses
*
forest walk
the clock’s blood pressure
much lower
*
slow tortoise…
envying rust
on its elbows
*
hay-tumble verdict–
again please but something less
than Evermore Street
*
night earthquake
dress shop mannequins feel
their first orgasm
*
ancient crack
in a teacup
holding it together
*
men merely dead
or truly dead
her smile tells you
*
usually
skip prefaces
but this morning fog…
*
drowned school jock
dark river had all winter
pops up on prom night
*
deep down
on the river bottom
all the free things
*
funeral home
the caskets cracked open
faint cries of porn
*
dark deli
lobsters in a tank
fight over bubbles
*
coffin shopping
he chooses a finish
that goes with his car
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