The Ballad of Nels and Yuka (Wedding Ghazal)
Steep-walled and stark stands the cold canyon: absence of Nels and Yuka.
The planet spun…but barely. Where’s the presence of Nels and Yuka? […]
Steep-walled and stark stands the cold canyon: absence of Nels and Yuka.
The planet spun…but barely. Where’s the presence of Nels and Yuka? […]
Sitting at my desk, with a thick wad of recycled
paper clamped to a clipboard in front of her, my […]
This is not a river. This is not a vase.
This is not a tablecloth slapping gravity […]
To marry,
to marry this man, […]
There was only one of him.
There was only one. […]
Sometimes a head hole
ain’t so bad: air, light—vamoose […]
Across the steel-corseted George Washington,
muddy Mississippi, heron-flecked Platte, bitter […]
Beep beep beeping backing-up garbage
slash recycling truck spoiling the morning’s […]
Airplanes skid off runways in Toronto it’s true but
not every darn one, so welcome aboard. The loonie […]
My father’s head
had a certain smell […]
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Ectopistes migratorius: done perfected the art
of getting places swift only to arrive unprepared […]
Basalt, scoria, obsidian, tuff.
Chalk, chert, flint, shale. Gritstone, mudstone, greywacke. […]