extract from Words Grow Quietly

II Words have a habit of grow­ing quietly, and in the most unex­pec­ted places, into poems. Syl­lables silently link hands, phrases cling like lovers, feel­ing right, and des­pite all well-inten­tioned reasoning, refuse to part. 22/7//88 – real­ity...

Midnight; black-tie;b.y.o.

In theory, I can only write like me, but real­ity is less defined. I do my best not to steal from others, but some influ­ence is obvi­ously inevitable. If it could be wished into being, like a genie, I’d have a style that would shout...
reality is for people who can’t handle drugs

reality is for people who can’t handle drugs

easy now time is a fra­gile word betrays its obscur­ity like a whisper past and future blend into a dream that might come true. life’s a series of physicalities but how to report myself on the miss­ing per­sons list remains...

To Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I Allow me to disagree. The first presen­ti­ment is not shame – noth­ing com­mit­ted, noth­ing to be guilty for. The first presen­ti­ment is an unac­count­able loss, a feel­ing that there is something that was sup­posed to be done somewhere,...