i tie a ribbon to a tree leave milk and honey the white fleece of a young ram i borrow the best picked men we sing welcome first earth first mother we carve on each other’s bodies rivers woods valleys every evening flower
2 Poems (Anxious Diva)
ANXIOUS DIVA My body: the most public yetof my many humiliations.Shame manifest as flabthat I’m convincing myself I shouldlove, I should touch, as though it is money, my lovelylottery lumps. Now accepting plastic:Discover, American Express corporate.Now enduring: street harassment, honey,lemon,
Hotel Life: A Play in to Parts
dedicated, with love and reverence, to leslie scalapino Patti was a punkRed tights or was it a red dressVisionary Indian angels revealing pyramids the writing in the sky Bird slows it down eyes follow line Of bird This is the play Dangling
Person of Interest
the thugs were childrencircling the villain with torcheswhile their grandfathers were liftingthe newspaper like a barbell each day from its useless doorstep fat beard full of mouthmarshals the house to false alert you put out the fires that came inbut
The Parking Lot of Reading Old Men
I remember : seeing them on the sides of roads : parked in shade : turning the pages : paperbacks : news : head tilted to the window : driver’s light : each in a quiet peace : I’d think
Dear Search Committee
It was the seventh time Helen had listened to Eminem’s Lose Yourself, and she was starting to feel guilty for neglecting the other songs on her playlist. She sat on the end of her bed, typing her cover letter. Success
The Things We Say We See
You see a half-collapsed old house with green tinged, rusted roofs. I see a flock of vultures circling something in the woods. You see a pretty lady with a haircut I would like. I see an old man with an