Author Archives: Pearl

in the night I am your jewel clasped tight in the setting of your limbs.

Time Accelerating (dedicated to Helena) My Monday and Friday with all of space in between, I feel the same as then, when presently, my mother, elbows on the table, was exclaiming “72? so young for the obituaries” and my click of tongue, so so old, more life than I can imagine, me 18 and it […]

mob violence, the eternal font turned read stain consciousness, flogs sink in, read and read unceasingly enclosed in the heat of heart smacking you about the inner ear lobes red with excited fear, smoke, dust motes yourself in the shaft of sunlight, all specks from black angel’s wings. Blink the breath of chest of cat […]

vegan barbarity I take the long pasta in hand and break it to pot length with the sense of ill of having just snapped though the neck of a goose

as a poet I am to court depression, not with powdered wig and gavel on charges of disorderly conduct unbecoming a community pillar, exemplar, no, court, not with love or score in clay footing with racket sport but as in hoop skirts flirt and perchance ask her mother muse if we may perhaps, dance, gloved, […]