Close your eyes he said and took my hand.
There was something he wanted to show me,
something I couldn't see. Raised like a scar,
a seam running through the body, here
where the day went dark. I'd ...Read More

The afternoon light lights
the room in a smudged
sheen, a foggy-eyed glow.

The dog digs at the couch,
low-growling at the mailman.
I'm spelling words with pills

spilled ...Read More

In Lijiang, the sign outside your hostel
glares: Ride alone, ride alone, ride
alone - it taunts you for the mileage
of your solitude, must be past

thousands, for you rode this plane
...Read More

Driving the highway from Atlanta to Phoenix
means swapping one type of heat for another.
A bead of sweat rolls over my chest,
around my belly and evaporates
so quickly I forget I'm sweating.
...Read More

That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not
hear,
But now the chorus I hear and am elated,
A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak...Read More

There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,...Read More