The Path of Religion

The path of religionhides and seeks in broken eddiesof intoxicated laughterin souls rubbing up against soulsin children kneeling in day-old mossin the audience inhaling with the divine singerin rosaries of shells and stonesstrung by foamat ocean’s edge we walked in...

Geneology

I used to think I knew ghostsuntil last nightstanding in the synagoguein a cluster of slightly altered DNAthe rabbi reciting Kaddishin exhumed tones I became one a ghost partially seen partially detecteda being trapped in eternity not flesh eternal like hands that...

Bolero

Not by the will of godnor the mind of mannot by chemical bondsnor electric currentsbut by a half-husheddisembodied breathresonating in the hollow of a reeda sub-audible musicun- performedun-listenedyet powerful as lifesuggesting genesisand there came a dancerwho by...

Storms

A sudden wind set the unlatched garden gateclapping out a cadence to the full choreographyof leaping branches and shimmying leavesin the morning spectacle of October our rickety buildings creaked and sighedwith the resignation of impending ruins the horses heard the...

Aggression

Uphill we walkwatched by the birdswho don’t name uslumbering through mudsnapping twigsan awkward species we’re watched by time that doesn’t tell usdoesn’t changewe are the hands on the dialwe are escaping sandand alarms at dawn we’re watched by the murdered eyes of...