I am a dog walker I am cooking beans I am the misprint in the formula I am heavy snow at night the scrape of the plow I am bored and ashamed of my boredom I am eating cashews pecans sunflower seeds I am a deer of seven tines I am the sluggish pulse I am a new sound in the deep forest just once I am an empty bag of highly flavored corn chips by the off ramp I am the mistake that leads to greatness I am a wave breaking on dark rock I am a wave breaking on sand
Tag Archives: snow
Having darkened my hand with dark ink in
an age when close and
distant are cloudy unaided having
made so much that no
body wants to eat I wait for the latest
historic storm and the
scrape and salt that wakes us too early
or too late
model mountains pen in
sugared cars I try to
lift the snow with a wave
of homemade rhythm into
sky like berries almost black
but do I fracture some rule with
this spell how many feet do I have
to long for long-lasting mud
and the birds who
visit though we won’t learn
their names this year
either but the tracks lead
to a curve turning
back on itself with a smile
the breath leaves
green leaves shake
so let’s finish off the crackers
and call them
cookies we can watch
a movie through the neighbor’s
window just
balance on this skull
snow on top of snow the snowman’s arm pointing somewhere
build a little temple in the well of the clavicle golden light honey fig bread wine maybe this book will run through the clouds we see tending to the is it only animals who live on the mountain
storm in the forecast & all these chapped lips for the best adverbs to fry up this or any other burger so why does it have to fill up the whole page ants build cities with mouths as small as we could wish for
where a tooth unrecognized as rotten should worms long to chew as though a star covered in gauze in the forest shout what from the shadow of a younger life of a beneath centipedes cry and yes still these empty hands in the snow
snow starts
too much
ink in the pen
snow before you know where you’re going an inch
I buy an orchid
for the spare room
melting snow
snap of sugar snap peas as snow starts on TV
under an inch of snow
the outline of a ladder