9.25.2014


A bowl fills, timing
the timing mallet beats—gold
thin glistening leaves.

9.24.2014


Flesh plumped soft in warm
bathwater, ripening peach
in an oval bowl.

9.23.2014


Shrinking great heavens,
the Learn’d Astronomer holds
them close, dear, as friends.

9.22.2014


Branches fall to twigs
weavers nest together in
song from a high branch.

9.21.2014


Much to repent of,
much to be forgiven, and
also much cattle.

9.20.2014


Ballots, petitions,
whatever—politics is
born by the body.

9.19.2014


Couple hugging close
under a blue umbrella:
they seem like nice guys.

9.18.2014


Values less than three
under a standard normal
should have tried harder.

9.17.2014


I started writing
on a whim. Not strange, except
the whim was not mine.

9.16.2014


Portraits arranged in
a window display faces
peering through faces.

9.15.2014


Misread signs: “Falling
rocks”, “Push button for signal”,
“End construction”, “Bump”.

9.14.2014


Shh. I’m not supposed
to tell: she was a princess
once upon a time.

9.13.2014


Beneath a sidewalk
tree, I meet the young queen of
an enchanted wood.

9.12.2014


A wise man plans for
a moment like this, and I
am without a plan.

9.11.2014


a sudden bell rings
into lockered hallways flock
the chirps of new soles

9.10.2014


Animal knowing
dissolving good and evil—
an old snakeskin shed.

9.09.2014


Vanity shed, chase
after the garden breeze, trace
its serpentine path.

9.08.2014


Long after the first
fall scrapes at tender skin, long
after innocence.

9.07.2014


Streets full of mourners
hands up pleading for justice
and frightening cops.

9.06.2014


Students at play with
their problems, a child’s surprise
lifts the birds to flight.

9.05.2014


Strange reassurance,
so many fish in the sea,
not to be a catch.

9.04.2014


Maybe money should
buy happiness. Its lack can
buy lots of sorrows.

9.03.2014


One plus e to the
negative i times π is
equal to zero.

9.02.2014


While it’s not pleasant,
being a disappointment,
it is familiar.

9.01.2014


To love what was is
as true, as real, as certain,
as hopeful as death.