Lift your face and drink
In the sun of flowing wine
Remember no sin.

The ambiguous
is ambiguous. It means
all the things it says.

Girl with umbrella
held close to her face—a clutch
of fresh-cut flowers.

Crumpled wax paper
scutters and leaps—mistaken
for a mouse, then bird.

Water of laughter
falls and falls and falls against
its all flowing self.

Former lovers touch
like returning home or to
the scene of the crime.

meticulous hand
composed articulate form
a scratch, an embrace

Waves of rays of light
Rice paper sinuous glows
Shadows of windows

Some omissions are
also an attention to
detail—mind the gap.

An evening sun
In the spring of huge roses
Golden plump and ripe

The bugs gather to
protest that they were here first—
angry gnatavists.

I almost never
remember dreams, but I'm told
I laugh in my sleep.

Ruinless city,
your marbles are glass, heavy
with splintering light.

Attend to absence,
Silence, meaning, a bowl, wind—
Coming to rest, rest.

She is writing a
meticulous history
of chance encounters.

Yahweh: Yahweh is
the Jews' god of comedy.
Jews: Jews have one god.

There is no new thing
under the sun. This is why
one should write at night.

Furiously slept
Colorless green ideas now
Refer from waking

Now that I've written
that down, I see that that is
clearly mistaken.

girl in a garden
cutting the throats of flowers
so much lovely death

In language like nets
Certain omissions define
Capture passing things

tales of violence,
sudden, plentiful, flowing,
as the teller's tears

Readings interpret.
Make what you will of that, but
sometimes you'll be wrong.

To begin, describe.
At root, all explanations
end in descriptions.

Poetic justice,
whatever its charms, is not
actual justice.

It's unnatural
the way flowers disrespect
private property.

See the world, and raise
some Cain wherever able—
a rascal's wager.

I am making tea
You do whatever you do
I am making tea

Overcome anger,
Turn the other cheek. Revenge
is just for us folks.

"We don't want freedom.
We don't want justice. We just
want someone to love."