on streetside

sound waves collide like body languages baffled by traffic pace irregularated meeting perpendiculars no smile for awkward dances sinuses become the reed of body instrument all of the musicians practice on separate scores nausea begins a purr too polite to roar shoulders roll to knit forward towards making a conjoined grind of binary socket isolate […]

Poem Link, Dunn

Decorum is by Stephen Dunn from his New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994. It’s on a workshop debating the right word choice for a poem/ experience on “making love”? or not. It just slays me for being painfully accurate and funny. Thanks for Jude pointing it out. Dunn‘s a writing teacher from New Jersey who won […]

fingering the gauntlet of day (April ghazal)

fingering the gauntlet of day (April ghazal) spring-brown grass sparrows where people wait for buses non-paths bulge hard-packed low wet edge twist treads with shifted weights wait there is time yet to procrastinate wart worry slip toe mudded delicious sink wind river lashed rain dash for cover is for others hermetic skin long shrift skywaterland […]