June 9, 2022
My neighbor saw him jump
the fence in thunder,
leave the pasture for the road,
then back again, a flight
across boundaries as lightning
struck, and the rain came down,
as it does these days, urgent, torrential. [...]
June 9, 2022
Are you a man or a woman? She's squinting
at my inch long hair, the flat side of my chest,
and what are the answers for the state [...]
June 9, 2022
Of course I meant to tell him.
I waited for the right moment
like a farmer waits for rain. [...]
June 9, 2022
Because she is ancient
and winged, her whole body
perched and dappled, legs
fading into the trunk of a tree
June 9, 2022
In the ditches things are poking,
pulsing through dirt.
or bulging from twig at burst-point
To stretch towards the great mama.
In the glow of her pleasure
Crocus gorse buttercup daffodil primrose
gleam yellow, calling us out [...]
June 9, 2022
If men
were to lay their testicles
one at a time
on the metal plate
— as breasts are — [...]
June 8, 2022
The jagged trail of pee
starts on the porch mat's
rough weave, crosses
the foyer into the front room
and ends on the rug
brought from Turkey. [...]