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city of dreams
every city a body of dreamscrossing. every crossing a placeto cut a deal. every deala soul sold. every soul a dreampeopled by ghosts, a city of the living,a city of the dead, a city of the unborn,every city teeming with dreamersdreaming … Continue reading
no dice
small dog at the end of his rope stopssteps beyond a buddha shrine, stepsbefore a cross in the shadow of a casinolosing his religion, no stomach for thisgambling, going nowhere, leash taut, teaching the walker on the other end to … Continue reading
all the light in the city
Walking in this night citywhere crowds that melt in middayheat congeal when the sun goes down, my eyes are on the ground,where I doubt there is space ortime to place one foot after another. Crowd moves, I am certainof it. … Continue reading
under the city
Two orioles perchin an interval betweentrucks, joggers chatter byin pairs. Oriolesfly, Columbine blossoms, turnthe world to flutterdown to the tops of treeswhere a woodpeckerkeeps time out of sightunder the city,rising
no time like the present
This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.-Jack Kerouac, On the Road A Soldier: I want to tell you about myself.I didn’t do it. I didn’t see who did it.It isn’t right for … Continue reading
empty talk
“The rioters who wore cassocks were no real monksand what they did is completely against Buddhist codes,”said Ngawang Daindzin, a living Buddha. All in all, it’s China’s Tibet, now and forever. -Xinhua, 19 March 2008 Empty talk endangers the nation.Practical … Continue reading
waiting
Empty train is fullof waitingit took on with memoryof what remainedwhen it pulled away from the last station.When the timecomes, engine will strainagainst the weightof it, haul it to some city wherewaiting is the only fuelthe people know.
on reading Homer through another war
Rage, goddess, singrage to contain every warthat has ruined some cityin the name of one god or the other. Makean epic of it. Makea book of it. Make a library of it, breakline after line to makeus come to light. … Continue reading
austin, driven to distraction
As far as eyes know, twoblack birds again and againuntil they fill half an acre of asphaltthey must think was spread for their arrivalfrom the city on a Sunday morningbefore shoppers. But the ear thinks it knowstwelve varieties before it … Continue reading
north Loop
On the north side of the river, buildingsrise to house people who deny the possibilityof dirt. After rain, a cadre called upagainst mud pushes it back with hosesand brooms, redistributes Fall with gaspowered blowers before it gets out of hand. … Continue reading