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Of Aquanauts

in Art and Photography Poetry on July 19, 2011 February 5, 2020

— Submersibles tethered: strangers to see into the silence the hidden coelacanth suspended in the womb. They sing in high-pitched Doppler to glint its scales; when nothing sings back, Calypso’s monitors are black (black…

Questions and Answers

— Yesterday my five-year old daughter chased her brother with a spatula. I’ll kill you! she screamed. Where does she get that? From the perverts on television. We don’t have a television. Then from…

White Heat

in Art and Photography Poetry on July 17, 2011 February 5, 2020

— My mother stands before the white heat, but for her it is more Cagney than Dickinson, sweat pants and a tray of pills, cable, that good son on a tower of fuel calling…

Love Poem

in Art and Photography Poetry on July 16, 2011 February 5, 2020

— We ate gently each other’s eyes, and the world, unseen, awoke.

The Oldest Sister is an Indian Giver

in Art and Photography Poetry on July 15, 2011 February 5, 2020

— She takes her word back. The word is Killdeer and it swoops from her mouth when she lets it out for the first time. The smallest sister watches it slice the wind in loops…