Category Archives: Workbook

swiftly relight the flame she said, and it rose with a wail from candle’s throat, the cave walls damp with excrement, rocks dripping. We breathed each other’s scent. Inhuman. Not even animal, just soulless flesh. We left our bodies there, … Continue reading →

i. how the ocean was changed just by picking up the globe and shaking it, left right, in out, one foot to the other, tsunami sneezes, earthquake coughs. Global asthma. A little girl had the power to do this, because … Continue reading →

Synaesthesia Long shadows, dry wind. What am I looking at? Nature contained, sloped. Tree poised between tuning forks. Gold standard, measured against sky. Excess burned off. Who’ll spend the light? Shed layers of topaz, azure, many shades and hues. It’s … Continue reading →

songs of the boot domestic scenes sound of bags crumpling, front door opens like cracking ice

Oh how I love love and to be loved but it’s complicated.

i. Wake up to gray light coffee and cold cereal, OJ, bowls, spoons, cat’s out, radio’s on. ii. Afternoon music, salad and words, hold this bowl as it fills, your hand, mine. iii. Evening’s candles, light’s many voices, gestures over … Continue reading →

spread out, fragment-weave tighter threads, dream logic “listen” to object in the mind, just sit and pay attention to words “literary” poems — inspired by lines or characters/stories process poems no form but in content poems epistolary — written at … Continue reading →