Magellan
I see the maps, watch you navigate – you will always find the shortest route between two points, I know – but no straight line can satisfy this wind over water or a thousand meandering coastlines, curving latitude and longitudeand …
frabjous
The touch of limestone coast between my toes, the waft of soft poseidon through his hair in salty spray parades as borogoves reflect, build nests beside and under, where along the clifftop prominence that beats …
leyenda de los volcanes
sleeping woman, smoking man watch over Tenochtitlan once young lovers, warring clans left their families, spurned their lands princess, warrior grasping hands fleeing parents’ cruel demands night falls quickly, need to campsnow falls quicker, cold …
for birds in a time of plague
how can i write about the plague when syrup-seeking silver-eyes flit for aphids, rich in honey-dew should i mention the sickness that diffuses in the fresh autumn air, in the quiet streak-free skies now, once …
True Tide
Coast of perfect bays, all night the harbor widens between us; as we sleep the continents change address. I sail all day to you then wake on the horizon my arms full of loss, my …
Ancient Shepherds
My mountain neighbors loom steeply up from our valley, rugged and still. They do not snore as they sleep there, do not stir or startle. Earthquakes don’t wake them,their molten cores reach deep into earth’s …
On the Wings of a Fly
In the flower that wilts by the pane looking out On the garden that nurtured its bud; In the carrion sprawled over sparkling sands And the soldier that bloats in the mud Of the trench …
The Park
a massive rock juts up in the park like the claw of a slumbering leviathan sightless, I sit under it now an impotent king whose footsteps leave no echo a marble fountain claims the park’s …