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POETRY
“Rebreaking a Bone” and Other Poems
“Before means chronology has logic; / means outpaced prior-faced enmity - / lacking of punch, drunkless. Dressed less.”
“January” and Other Poems
“I am too much in my body. / Mornings spent wishing for optical science and invisibility cloaks.”
“The Passing” and Other Poems
“After what had gone before / was gone, it was afternoon, / deep spring, and the distances:”
“Nirvana” and Other Poems
“When I was young the fucked up kids / slammed in the pits, ragin / against suburbia’s poisoned air. / They nodded out in basement apartments,”
From “Stock Pond”
“I didn’t put your place (cafo – concentrated animal / feeding operation) on Counterglow. / By now I guess the algo knows. I don’t know what”
“Loud Laughter” and “Up the Depths”
“It wafts out of the same demented hallway monsters march out of also: / the vampire sings, laughter follows. A machine modified to present”
Sestina on Segantini’s “The Punishment of Lust”
“Alpswise in its white ruin, when the workers had the lead carbonate / perfected at Rhodes, shavings of lead over a bowl filled with vinegar / I took the History of Make-Up pilfered I’m told from the State”