It’s Hard to Explain
Ants will visit every feast.If the potato salad has mustard and sweet pickles,I can put up with crawlers.And if I …
Category: Free Verse
she even looked a bit like you
outside the port-a-johnleaning on the livestock penstrapped between twin stenchesI hold your purse like a used tissue “don’t go anywhere!”so I …
Pepito at Peace
The Nationalists nevermarched down Calle Margaritaeven when they took Caranqueno fascist boottouched these stones. Pepito sits on a white flat …
Arroyo
Just north of El Prado, the land slopes down toward Hondo Valley. A green Forest Service truck and vintage motorbikes …
Suitable
I’ve hung myself in the closet. Not from a noose, but on triangular wire amongst the other me’s I need …
Moth
What wrecks you make, crushed with fly swatters. We see only your distress, caught bentwinged by geckos or wrens. A …
Mud Season
Here the mud is up to our hubcaps in the driveway, and Mohawk grass marches down the center safe from …
Darkness
I love the light, but also when it goes to hide. The day’s too short for me to finish every …