Monday Poems

The other one has tried to reach itacross the ocean of the shoulder,tried to stop it from hitting, from sendinga man to death with a scribbled word.The…

substitute teaching one daythey, too young to be properly diagnoseda.d.d, a.d.h.d, FAS,abused, neglected,child of an alcoholic3rd born in a line of…

pecan groves outside of Lafayette,the pine woods north of Spokane,the field by my house where the snow piled deep,where a snow owl passed so silently and…

I want to say the guacamole was pleasant,metallic and viscous, and the ornamentation,while excessive, contributed a certain vaguenessto the otherwise…

The women of the interior prepare themselves for pain by igniting small piles of fir needles on their wrists. I, too, want to age in the mountains, though…

Let's call it by its Algonquin name:"he strips off" or, if you will,"the sage" or "respectful one." Not a twigleft on top of another, not a single…

As if through glass, through windows, in a café, in the afternoon or early evening, in June, in June or November, month like a fetish of gray—a month of…

We learn to swear from our fatherswhen they're chopping woodand miss the log,axe skimming barkoff the woodblock,dew off the grass,goddammit raising its…

who coils in my bones,what were you thinking that summer nightwhen you found the warm roadon the edge of the canyon and stoppedjust there exactly at the…

Plastic bracelet signifiesunescorted minor. Fidgetypre-teen assignedto the seat beside me. Shuttledtwixt Dad's new life,Mom and her boyfriend back home.Up…