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Saturday, November 16, 2013

stitches

stitches

nothing cuts as deep as a lie

except the truth

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2014

Loquacious (imagined granddaughter)
Photoshop® (the shortest novel imaginable)
The Disciplines
They killed Gwen Stacy in the film too
a bad day (not the worse part)
a single rail
anniversary ceremonies (the things we cannot incinerate so we lie)
blue blood
chalk
colors (the rainbow you)
criminal acts (black&white)
dark chocolate
diligence (skeleton key)
dislocation
do you
everyone believes in god (on the paradox of being wholly human)
glimpse you
hello
i am the voice of reason (breathing you breathing me)
i do not fall in love
i still lie (he thought)
imagination&recollection (i come to tell you everything)
impending doom
j was young&happy (and everyone hated her for it)
lies, paralysis, & all the things we cannot recover
miracles & dust
misfire (trigger warning)
other men have squandered this
polish (this did not happen)
rising sun, you (solstice)
rooms and spoons (i watch you with my fingertips and palm)
secrets between my granddaughter and me (watch out world)
selfie
shaving over scars (the art of not falling backward)
she was risen
small sad songs playing in my mind
something i learned watching a young 20s couple at barnes and noble
spoken (we swallow words like cyanide)
summer poem
teleportation, time travel, & dreams (the empiricists have no clothes)
the chemistry of my sorrow (skin&bone)
the death of us (redux)
the moon is nothing
tracing (everything that matters)
train
unchosen
warning: pay attention
we all fail (you coming new to us)
withering plants, bloat kings, & hangovers from dreaming of you
you have asked me why i walk so fast

2013

52 (hurtling)
Anomaly (imagined child)
Manifest destiny
The 451 App (22 August 2022)
Yen To Dollar (notes on a gifted child as an adult)
a couple of brief couplets
a few words about being wrong & after the monsoon (holding on pt. 2)
a short poem about a hollow object
abeyance
all the king’s horses (re-assembly required)
april fool
balloon (too light for this world)
believer
broken heart
bruises, horns, flakes of dried blood, & new books
child (you have you)
child of my child (exponential love)
crinoline (&)
distance
fist (under the rug)
gasoline (callouses)
god
here (belong)
hindsight
holding on (our zen odyssey)
hoods (justice pt. 2)
i stood too long at the edge of us (tighter)
impressions
in case you ever wonder
in light of everything (snow blind)
in the absence of you (men are crude)
justice
knowing
lamb of my heart, you (on being sheepless)
lavender silk monkeys
loneliness is weightlessness (dumbfounded)
measured (this is what she learned)
midnight (these rituals of recreation)
on second thought
prayer (inhale)
razor blade
recognition (the proximity of imagined cars)
sadness (dark chocolate)
scales (homophones)
she drew herself
sleeping alone
somebody’s somebody who matters (the art of wanting)
spring (en route)
stitches
tarantulas sharks black mambas zombies & witches
tears remain tears (time travel pt. 2)
text sent to my daughter on her wedding day
the absence of you
the archeology of white people
the economy of mix tapes (bygone)
the happiness of new books first read
the kindness school (beyond the archeology of white people, pt. 2)
the last straw (touching)
the problem with the New World
the proximity of entrances and exits (the only teenager i ever knew how to be)
the truth
they ran (15 April 2013)
this film of you (Transylvania haunts me)
this is the reason i failed you (a polaroid)
this quest for sweetness
tide & moon
unable (the day rose)
virtue or beauty (she reads in class as if nothing else matters)
wake (i will try)
walls
warning: writers (if)
what does a curve weigh?
which came first (or does it matter): out of nothing
wine song
wonderland (Yen To Dollar pt. 2)
you (i do not think)
“invisible & weightless” (time machine)

2012

3ight (infinity)
a poem on being desired, being desirable
acrylic (heartless)
amper&and (& other stories)
artifacts (redux)
as if (faerie tales for mortals)
autopsy
bone-deep (after the scarring)
calculating (the erased)
cautious (resignation)
chemotherapy (poetry is fabrication)
choice (Vote!)
confessions (this bay of love)
confidant (nothing will ever be to me)
cover (crestfallen)
cured (when)
delicious (just deserts)
directions (lather rinse repeat)
disembodied
dragons (R.I.P.)
fascism
feasting (how the wealthy thrive)
fight (because & the sweetness of golden pears)
filled (a second heart)
Fisherman and The Siren (vortex of desire)
flirting with a life only spoken
frail (drop of blood in a glass of red wine)
grazing (koan)
half-life (weightier than plutonium)
happiness (the only me i’ll ever be)
here is my secret (shhhh)
i miss you most (possible)
in the time after the cure (the melancholia of broken hearts)
inside you, inside me (flying, falling)
intimacy (men&women)
layers (stranger in my own dreams)
light (the irretrievable allure of outdoors)
longing for thunderstorms
loss is just a word
mourning (the arc of my days)
my reptilian brain (beware the buffalo): anniversary of my sorrow
my zombie life
on imprisonment and freedom
our rare sober days (uncanny)
powder, frosting, & slices of lime
precious infidelity (bibliophilia)
reading a biography (in the absence of you)
recollection (dreams blossom like a garden)
relief (naming)
rendezvous (what lonely people do, pt. 2)
rings (grounded)
saving
sirens, faerie tales, & all of my trippings (howl)
taking her pulse (struck)
Tarame never had a daughter (Anomaly)
thank you (& tales of a nude man)
the archeology of happiness (wherefore)
the consumers (crimes against the market)
the everyday motion of artifacts
the gathering (MayDay)
the world
there is this thing of us and always (the indelible)
these boxes (an antiquarian's Valentine’s Day card)
these gaps of us
these prepositions of love
time (all my calendars are the same)
time travel (in this time after the End)
to lie in bed (appeasement)
tracing, holes, self-righteousness, & superpowers (crimes of passion)
upon watching The Matrix 13 years late (Nerd Rules)
watcher (these novels and films)
what lonely people do (we)
words are a meager thing at the bottom of a grave
writer hermit vampire (artifice is a testament)

2011

a banana, peanut butter, & two slices of wheat bread (a koan)
candles smoldering like wine (you turn me on)
carpenter's song
coffee spoon worn (25 january 2011)
delicate (rice paper)
disappeared (put aside, necessarily)
empty
endemic (this moment called you)
Hunting Island, SC (wilderness)
in the middle of a full-moon summer night
it was at that moment (desire in a time of absence)
let's (lover's request)
liar (the only true you ever knew)
no other (snowflakes and ashes) pt. 1
now (kiss)
people do this (masks)
poverty and poetry
precipice (falling & the fallen)
reading Foucault while making spaghetti
seed of happiness and peace
shoes (did you know)
sins of her father (gods and kings and men of all kinds)
surface (volcanoes and the other side of gone) pt. 2
surrender (when they come for me)
tarame
tethered (this inertia of love)
the constant narration of things unsaid
the math of us (stages of grief)
these things
tracing (Du'a)
trap door (diamonds, fire, and honey)
we have lain
words

2010

and then we stopped wearing watches
avalanche (of antique books & fear)
bitterness (if it weren't for me)
boa (wearing my daughter around my neck)
exhaustion (upon watching Sylvia)
god (when humans kiss)
hanging lovers (recollection)
heart surgeons, astronauts & new lovers
heirloom, token, talisman (peace is an object given)
rewriting hansel & gretel (satiate)
saturnine (a belly full with stone)
she fell in love with words one day
she found herself
some times (disguise)
the intoxicating (and thus the war)
these metronomes
vampire mood

2009

i can't like other people
lie with you
listless (an upright life)
living the hour over (fearless)
lovers (no. 9)

2008

aching
horea
love & the promise of love
nails polished
no one teaches us
quilting
semiotics: nothing done in haste
sleeping (faerie dust has nothing on us)
tarot cards & tea leaves
the language of should
yellow wood to bare

Undated and Pre-2008

acetylene (2003)
billboard
blouses & skirts
bones of contention
carved pierced illustrated
cinco de mayo
drawn to two
eminence grise
facades & fingertips
half-life (2004)
honey
if—pining (my three-legged-table life)
Mary (sea of bitterness)
melting
michael has a beautiful voice
of anne sexton—and my lover (periwinkle & lavender) (2004)
rocks, scissors, paper—stoned
she could
the me not me
things built & things uncovered (2007)
wishing away the bars

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