We’re closing the books on 2011 at Zócalo,
So a year-end poem seemed apropos.
We might have gone Roger-Angell-style,
Marching the year’s guests in single file,
Rhyming Steven Brill and Brad …
Why are our lives so full of things
that didn’t happen? We carry
phantom luggage of journeys
we never took, leave futures
packaged behind us in the past,
awkward gifts we …
Bright morning wakes me through
A drapeless window. Away from kids
And wife for the weekend, the bed
Is quiet, the room unpressurized,
The house airy. I miss my life
As it is …
Where birds
listen intently
a garden gate stands amid a plain triganomaly.
the oldest living life forms are chaparral
Note the house the agave Americana lives next to
stands two stories high, …
Half a woman, really, off a balcony
in the early December of another hemisphere.
Danced or frozen
amid a well-placed healthy skepticism:
The letter “P”
Where birds listen intently, [how dry it is].
Where spines, hair, …
Cloudbase to air
she jets, textile heiress
with guns–in memoire. Where
cloud burst, to air
she streamed in guerre
a Mysteron. Exiled, rare is
Cloudbase. To err,
she jets and texts. …
They are hot and moist in operation, under the
dominion of Venus, and provoke lust exceedingly.
–The British Herbal Guide, 1653
Such flowers must be used with …
I used to have a small cock and a big ego, but then I realized the wisdom of doing things the other way around. Now I concur with Theodore Roosevelt …
Howard
Where there is a Howard, there is a
Howard
How is the ard of Howard. Now, take two Howards and blend them
Into a large sugar bunny. What you will find is …
The mother in the movie Mother would kill for her son.
Not so my mother, who, if anything went wrong,
laid blame squarely on me. If a kid hit me,
They didn’t trust the other country’s water,
the crystal ropes uncoiling from the faucets,
so they brought their own in plastic bottles
that vibrated on the cargo plane-cases
mounted on cases mounted on …
The night peels the sun like an orange,
swallows it wedge by wedge. Come dawn,
the sun will rise again for you, bronze
and blazing. You take this for granted,
and this …
