by phoenix | Aug 17, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
from almost the first moment it was kant heidegger nietzche deleuze foucault you-name-it we name-dropped it, argued over relevance and challenged each other to define terms, over beer, over vodka, in the dank cabin, in the smoke filled bar, under the...
by phoenix | Aug 14, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I am heat and sap-riddled sluggish pulse through skinsack, breath comes shallow, slow there is steamheat in my drumthrob chest, waterheat on my sweatbrow feet hung limpid over tub-edge taking in air like a dog’s tongue. the oceanfoam is like skyclouds...
by phoenix | Jul 31, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
so, take this key. we are leaving tomorrow. they say: sell everything. they say: there is nothing here for you anymore, nothing but death. i am stubborn. they will not have this house. i was born in this house, its enclosures were my...
by phoenix | Jul 30, 2003 | Poetry
rooftop shooting stars the warm cream /yellow glow of lights from surrounding houses the voices on the hot air occasional breezes talk of the left and power and language and words falling in amongst light and smoke wine and gazpacho, laughter...
by phoenix | Jul 3, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
your old stones cobbled alleyways whisper under my feet of turbaned men hurrying to mosques women in the markets buying candles for sabbath blood and screams in your dungeons too, wars: this harmony was hard won. your old bones quiet deep...
by phoenix | May 6, 2003 | Poetry, Uncategorized
one day you will move cities and we won’t know each other well enough for you to tell me one day you will encounter me in the streets with a young child and be saddened that you didn�t know I’d had her. One day I will drive past some street that...
