Cracks in the Walls (from “The Surreal Sonnet Series”)
Our windows open to a wall of brick With windows of its own deep in its grooves. We see a pulsing motion, we are sick, For waving from each window, thirteen hooves! What demons live inside these walls,...
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Some new tracks in the sand by Potter’s Mount, Four toes, then five, then six, then back to four, Each alternating step, a different count, They end under the lifeguards’ boat – no more. I turn to...
View ArticlePsalm for Winter
You are not the gal who’s looking for Frontline flea and tick treatment for her rabbi. You do not develop into a separate, fatal species. You are not the steady slide far in excess of what a 215-pound...
View ArticleEvery time
Every time a bell rings, an angel earns his wings. Every time you have a great meal, workers at the lighthouse all report hearing a faint scream. Every time one of the nerd twins attends a pro...
View ArticleOriginal Translation of Two Poems by Gabriele Barbarrossa (also known in some...
I. I made for you a dress. I made it in a hurry. I made it from live animals – its feel is rather furry – so if you wear it in a photograph your edges will be blurry. II. my son, my son right here,...
View ArticleLaser Sight Tattoo Dream Sonnet (from “The Surreal Sonnets” series)
Red beams upon my chest in a nightmare which burn into my skin a strange tattoo – two turtles making love on a highchair, while underneath, a figure crawling – you! I know that I can’t put on any...
View ArticleA Tribute to The Dead (Picabia, Ernst, et. al) from “The Dead”
On of the things I love about living in the city is the greater possibility of chance happenings of a somewhat unusual variety over those possible elsewhere. Carol and I were walking to the subway...
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