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call and response
For the time being, Spring hasstopped, cold, in thisApril moment. Two cardinals singcall and response in twotrees before sunrise. You can hear her warming her handsby the fire of theirscarlet voices, enticing herto stay.
january 2011
1 world’s on the wayto ice tonightbut the river will not stand for it.cold as the city isin january, lightit sheds still dances on living water.snow tonight, snowtomorrow. river takes it in, flowsas every river flows to an oceanthat drinks … Continue reading
slant
Light in this cold is so slant it bends sound to it. You can see words in clouds that rise and scatter before they reach another frozen figure who has ears to hear them. Nothing remains but the air between … Continue reading
hours before solstice
Snow eclipsed the moonlast night, and I sawthe whole arc of earth’s shadow slip slow red across its surfacein my mind’s eye hours before solsticein clear cold night sky where there were no clouds on the far side of the … Continue reading
every kiss a singularity
blueberries cluster all agape, pointingat a world composed of nothingbut impossibles the whole cluster of surprisebursts in each cold sweetblue explosion every kiss a singularitywhere a universe begins copyright
bop
Cold couldnip the tipsof your fingers if you tookthe gloves offat dusk today, but Max Roachhaunts two sticksand a plastic bucket at a red linestop stepsfrom downtown theaters. Crowdstoo cold to stop – notbop. Gloves off, hands put a dancein … Continue reading
tomorrow
You might think sudden snowthat blew in with a lateMarch blizzard got those daffodils scattered sullen in dry grasswhere drifts piled high as the fencetwo days ago. But they’d come and goneby then, leaving nothingbut corpses of the first Spring … Continue reading
mementos
After months of ice,the surfaceof this morning riverhas turnedto light in March. Redwingblackbirds on the north banksing it to life over the droneof traffic and boats risingout of hibernation. Tourists take snapshots of Spring,mementos for tomorrow, whenthe world grows cold … Continue reading
four political truths
1 All desirepeace, but notwhat makes peace 2 possible. In cold hard lightthe sound of desire is strange. 3 All is suffering,the source of sufferingdesire. Let desire go and there is no 4 suffering. But nothere, nottoday, not in this … Continue reading
chicago river, november
Wendella passes under the bridge asI pass over. A tour of the cityamplified for a crowd drifts acrossa deck of empty chairs and three touristswho wonder at the architecture of cold. It could be Matins at Canterbury,a tree turned to … Continue reading