FRESH KILLS
In the chaos of phase space squats
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WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM
Food is the gun that plows the poor.
A fly on that boy’s eye makes you sick. […]
THE WINTER GARDEN
Today on Broadway, we huddle from wind
beneath palms and piano fingers playing […]
BLUE ANGELS
Lateisha Terrell can’t find the hundred dead
presidents to plea bargain her ten-year-old’s […]
GLOBAL UPSTREAM DIAPER DEVELOPMENT
Under thirteen stars and a pearly slice
of moon, the buttoned-down pink-skinned minions […]
NOTHING ON TV (TONIGHT)
Someone named Bond paid 53.9 million dollars
for a painting by a guy who tried to shoot […]
THE FACTORY
Ninety dollars an hour in Angola
Indiana will buy you lunch and more. […]
ISM
Driving out of town, fast but not too,
sharing a cockeyed joke and smoke, sniffing […]
MONUMENT
The gross national product of Congo
is in a state of collapse, swooning […]
YOUTHS ADRIFT IN A NEW GERMANY TURN TO NEO-NAZIS
is the headline fit to print hard by an ad
for Tiffany eighteen-karat Stars of David, […]
THROW IT DOWN (WITH AUTHORITY)
Ernie Johnson in our studios will explain
the need for bonus coverage. Does TV enhance […]
XANGMU
After landslides and three days’ walk to town,
I get to play the Western stranger game: […]
CHINESE AIRSPACE
Impossibly still except for the bombing,
birdcalls and bombing, Tingri Plain rises […]
SENDERO LUMINOSA
The slowness of graves in unburying
the dead is small thanks from earth for the way […]
THE SHADOWS OF KILIMANJARO
The tintinnabulation of the vegetation
in the plastic carcass of memory rings […]
RAIN FOR NINETEEN HOURS
Delicious day of tent and rain, the wind
cold but not unloving, like mothers before […]
DARK CANYON: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RIVER
Does a river flow backwards like the blues
or blue memory of life as a child, kicking […]
THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND FEET
The burnt rusted wreckage of crumbling
hills fills canyons with the rub of time […]
EVIDENCE OF BEAR
Like the dreamy housewife shrieking
Hitchcock shrieks at her refrigerator […]
MILES DAVIS
Funk so deep you were half the time
drowning: pretzeling your fingers […]
WATCHING THE GRASS GROW
Even Nat King Cole, so smooth
he became white in the eyes […]
DOCUMENTARY
Blue cranes among kudu,
the sand grouse captured […]
DA HOOD
Hitler, Pippen, Barkley, Shakespeare, Payton.
Gromyko, Nintendo, Kaifu, Hitler. […]
SLASH AND BURN
Say you’re wild dog or sleepy cheetah
kissed by sun through smoke, flushed tumbling […]
DESK WORK, AFTER HEARING BAD NEWS
I could use the stapler to staple
my eyes shut. That hurt would help […]
THE SPONGE
Like a boy on his first flight
asking to see the cockpit […]
LOST AND FOUND IN NEW HAVEN
The vodka-cut artery spurts blood
into the brain. Seven headless women […]
CHRISTMAS QUARTET
1. The Crash
When all the leaves fall from the banks […]
VALENTINE ON 109TH STREET
The memory of bean soup to the man
shaking on the supermarket grating. […]
THE DAY I TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL
is the day she needs me to help her move
into her seventh apartment of the decade. […]
CHYNA IN THE LAND OF REVOLVING DESSERTS
Jaguars jump with the grace she pours malts.
What’s extra in the silver vessel is key. […]
PILLOW TALK
Your brain can only be as big as my
vagina croons mom to son, cradling head […]
BLACK DRESS
The black bow at the small of your back
is the long rope harpooned to your mother’s […]
TURKEY BASTER
My drive to his flight is filled with oldies
on the box, making me sad and happy […]
SOFT OPENING
Lemon flowers and lotus ponds, temples
on the corner, turndown service, chocolates: […]
A FEW WORDS FOR OUR UNBORN CHILD
Comforting friends say there will be others
but you just missed tonight’s voluptuous […]
PREGNANT
Up the slow river we walk like children
playing games. Thumb wrestling, singing badly. […]
CRIB DEATH
The emptiness of accident
amid spastic clutter of clock […]
WHAT THE SHRINK TOLD US
When we commit the boy to the clinic
we strip the parents of all illusions. […]
A SMALL BOY, YOUR SON
A few years back I taught him ball: the drop
step in the paint, the pick-and-roll, the base […]
A DIVORCE
Everything falls: Rome, leaves,
breasts, the apple, shadows across […]
TROPICAL DEPRESSION
You’re a real morning-after pill
is what she said. (A canceled flight […]
NOSTALGIA
Riding the old train I used to ride when
I liked riding trains—past pouched loading docks, […]
SEMTEX / PA 103
10. My mother is weeping over my grave.
She places a pink rose petal on my name. […]
THE BIG ONE
Will it cause the dead to dance?
They’ve been waiting, arrayed […]
ABORT RETRY FAIL
A suction of rotors squeezing
micron-thin particles […]
SUNDAY ROUNDUP
An eco-sensitive minimalist, he tagged his targets
on oversized Post-it notes. Cops could never make […]
THE UNACCEPTABLE LACE OF CAPITALISM
Police Japan trying to curb unsavory trade.
Three businessmen vending machines sell […]
SMART MONEY
Smart money swaggers into the room and eats
your lunch, then swivels and pauses, issuing […]
POLITICS: NO STONES NO FISH NO WIND
Of course there’s always a girl
in distress. But the trust […]
JET LAG: SOMETIMES IT COMES TO THIS
Another planeload of baguettes leaves France.
Gay frogs leap into silk sheets and rivet. […]
PULSE POINTS
In dreams, your breasts are perfect and skin
thick fur against the cold of this distance. […]
LOST AISLE OF DOGS (SHOPPING SAFEWAY)
Kill only things you understand, all else
let go. The maid spanks her lord like clockwork. […]
BLUES FOR FATMAN
You. I sensed you in the sweet vulgar smell
of new Buicks, English Leather, and walls […]
BIG CRINKLY
Unzippered speech of children,
shushed at school and museum, […]
THE TOWN CRIER
Bindlestiff with bonebreak skin and laptop,
batteries running low. The bilge water […]
SHATTER GLASS / KRISTALLNACHT
The pane of glass exploding like the sheets
of Klansmen riding like the ancient tailor freezing […]
FREE TIBET
Trekking in Tibet I meet the Dalai Lama.
Hello Dalai. Hello David. After some […]
BUGS
When humans watch the sky for holes, then kiss
all plants goodbye and suck down freeze-dried food […]
POEM FOR A BUSINESSMAN (ME)
Sympathy, to begin with, is a problem.
The hotels are okay and there’s free soap […]