Dear harpies, helloAre you spooling obliviously in longitudinal linesor a stack of little beltsSummering so voraciously it feltlike it fell from the pocketof Long Overdue & a randokindly handed…

Mental toolkits are the color of brown paper bags  I’ve never sued anyone! she said at the party I’ve never pulled a tick off my dog’s butt! I pulled one off my husband’s butt! I squeezed into…

Were revelations velled You could have un-velled them To dance the seven With your head on a plate Tongueburger Satiated apricot The joke in poems Is pronunciation Elocution probe Moon’s moon…

If you stare at a spreadsheet long enough  it will come alive and turn into colors that must be fed with yeast in little bowls Picking her up by the corset is the same thing as licking my brai…

There is chaff around my rags and a swoon in my nodal moon.A deep horror of petrichorgreets me daily at the bar.I don’t go to San Diegofor burritos anymore andIkea’s cult-fave bookcasesits undelive…

you’d been doing your animal asking, dipped your whole head into the creek and then poured out onto the dirt. it would be easier like this, dulling extremes, waking up with mud lashes. it wou…

First town then town again then hotel key what comes next First town then town again then pie & coffee also Bob also terror Next town remains first town once quiet town a missing person townA m…

Yesterday, whine and ebb of happy birthdaybeyond the bridal bush. Billiards rack of black-cladpost-grads picked over the pillowy stashI hid near Vonnegut’s house. Battered vole, battered for hours …

Up the hill & downthe hill The hill is a mountainThe mountainis 976 feet above sea levelSea level is a lever to pull in case of emergencya switch to flood the darknesswith light a parallel unde…

I am elated because spring, because love, because good God my friends are amazing. Creativity and the shape that contains it, the way that distance exacerbates insecurity and how a look, not even a…

Look at youLook how you lookOn that hilltopBy that meadowSpatulating the exchange rateWith beesSaved-up salisbury steak greaseAnd fried chicken gristleFrom the ‘70sJust look at youSteve of QueensDo…

From Pamphylia Land of tongues The sounds words make Is not their fault They can’t help it Being spoken Feels like speaking to The language Undertrawler Inxile Returning already From where yo…

headless box turtle is in fidelity with the spring ephemerals    rib cage  of a water bird is in fidelity  with the actualized understory    congressional movemen…

the animal tends to arrive at intervals for bloom-watching, surreal juice of our chins pouring off into sticky fields. we open our abdomens like cabinets, our hinges creak. daybreak calls on the la…

no fight right no fight at all. flagging. falling further from any feeling. all of them. if I fracture, is it fatal? if I freeze– fetal? all these figments. thesefinepoints, fragments, fistso…

Everything changes         Deeper woods    To find wild        More secrets Parties      In abandoned train cars           Drugs          Exotic birds        Extroverts      Bad tattoos You left me…

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Does your shapehave little legs sticking outappendages going nowherea goggled eye or crooked fina comb-shaped hairdoor a bit of a saggy muddlearound the middleor what?Let that shape expressitself a…

had we arrived at tending before this? you know the animal sleeps under gaze so you watch and watch, peel oranges onto your stomach, flecks of juice. it’s a ripe bed, citrus bright, then dayb…

I only write so I can say nothing is finished I’ll start typing and publishing books  as soon as I’m done reading everything Your own book is the only one you don’t read I want to get lost in …

blast it all. blast bruisers and bullies. blast blighters. before the bend in the roadblueskies were boring, but I beg for blue now. I’d bartermy boy to be able to breathe. my firstborn. it&#…

Abouties and Aroundnesses Live limbs Reach back to touch Your face Gently measuring Threadlineage Anyoneymous Wing flock Are you speaking or breathing Asleep The furies trill Half-flying Half-roost…

Spin swerve       Gone summer        Dragging bikes  uphill       Downhill&nb…

now I wish I’d gone even more pedestrian photo-flash of morning lightningtheir “no, you go” at intersectionsmy jaywalking on diagonalshopscotching twigs and wormsmovie-set rain (wind through wet tr…

Roused out of my swoonhollow & absenthow could I fight?I had been carryingsomething that looks like a knotin the woodIt was not a knotin the wood It was a thoughtbut wasn’t no goodFresh lettuce…

Cursing and swearing is the cool language of cake and chinos with loafers and no socks They left the centibillionaire’s island  with hand-foot-and-mouth disease and a broken ankle all of which…

This is very rough and it got weird at the end but this is where my brain went on my 30 minute lunch.   I am crashing towards the end And it’s another Monday & I feel Near collapse. …

I bless every sneezer Bless the sneezer Not the sneeze The plough of ploems Meandering over here While youander over there In doom pollen yonders Pretty good right Like the pretty wildflowers The p…

Have you on a hilltop Released a bicycle The big wheel In the front Eventually becoming The same size As the little one behind Staying upright So long as it’s in motion How long is that Let u…

Join the microfiber cleaning club? Spic and/or Span a Venn Diagram? Playing the long game of compulsory sports just to avoid dust-busting the futon is okay if we’re all poets, ‘cause the hard work …

our pink and chocolate field mushroom of a boyfriend  saw the bear crossing  plainfield    bluebells too  long underwater to un  scraggle    my lobes still p…

there’s a fleck of orange in the dog’s eye, you know this because the animal sleeps and wakes against your body, looks up to see the state of you. these couple days are taut and floweri…

Devotion I should dig. I do. But how I dread dreaming, departing as it does from the dregs of the day. I digress. Or I demur (directing myself to wall). Door-ways are dreamy, no? Docents. I have de…

Green-hued blueRed-hued bluePrimary blueBlue rain in a blue mood undera rankled blue moonWhat I wouldn’t giveto give it overto somebody else the longtail game of wait & seeaches with misspent v…

Spick and span Or one or the other But not both Venn diagram Of what is diagrammatical And what is not The marks on your body Descend into your body Skin neverending Erasures reinscribed A system T…

There’s nothing better than a book that smells like a white bra or a string of mustard All of our books have wet or dry food on them Why aren’t there dining tables with shelves Did Proust change me…

In twenty years His hair would be thinning   In thirty years Skin starting to sag on the bone    He’d still be Shelving books    Dreaming aloud     Half in this world   half in his head    She didn…

there’s no grieving in the orange kitchen but you can pull taut the spiral of linking ears across the refrigerator doors and around the corner, balance on the scratch arm of a stuffed chair, …

I planted two soft potatoes in the back yardjust to see what might happen. I clawed out nails from the top of the trim,used them to hang gifted Grapefruit printsnext to the bathroom door. Then a ni…

Choose strife & chew wellThe shards are not so tenderThe tv cuts itself offThe lights upstairs cut themselves offThe kitchen is darkI’m just dimming a little & from the other roomthe intern…

How to write when completely distracted, burned out, the figure of time as a perpetually lovestruck asshole who is largely unwilling to get shit done yet carries on anyway, like the good time they …

There were zinnias lining the garden entrance    Common flowers   The eye forgets To track   A path that led to so many shades      of dahlias The bench   Was it on the bench?     They sat on the b…

What’s up I hate it when you ask me that What are you doing Can’t you tell I’m reading  What are you reading A book about the history of books What are you doing Reading a book about bookstore…

The you of which you speak Gleans yous in the yousland There are so many Mouse hair sweaters On cough owl chairs Vaultchested, cantalouped The gnashmash reconfigures New word comes next Getting lar…

I refuse to dance the acceptance dance–perform the thing I loathe–the therapy-speakfor a grief difficult to name, but one that, at its peakmight be called a homelessness of sorts. I had…

Polecat pupecat The pretty gray poison Is no longer manufactured It turns out poison poisoned The vessel it shipped in The beauty bounty movement Moved the pianolions Made a stack of needles Breath…

(with some phrases by you alls)The verklempt wildernessdoesn’t love you back.It just sits and spinsin beluga leviathan whorls.You put your face to the ground,you want to write a poem,but its palook…

doordoordoordoordoordoordoordoor go this one gets yesno this one knows that lie keep talking eyes closed memorized the next word’s the closer one of these soandsos youknowwhos knows who took …

I understand that this place is called Iowa City.Greenwich Village isn’t a village, either. It is definitely more fun to be in your 20s in the 70sthan in your 70s in the 20s. Here’s what you learn …

For days on end we use onlyblack and whiteI see what I want to see& you see the oppositeDays standing on end?Lying end to end?How many times do they wrapthe earth or reach to SaturnAs many days…