tattycoram

When I was a teenager, I knew a thing or two. I stayed in my room being skinny and having bangs, listening to Bauhaus and lifting 3 lb. we...

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1. What are those people saying? I mean, birds. 2. Do not think about what constitutes a "pleasant environment" in the morning....

Last poem of the April draft-a-day challenge! "It's been real," as my mother used to (embarrassingly) say to store clerks. --...

This is me having a life of the mind Late April and I'm almost back to swimming feeling-- swim swim--under a washed-clean sky and all th...

Jesuit School [poem found in the back of this semester's teaching notebook] the way a nun in no habit will bend at the waist cock her he...

Morning and “Opaline” Light after Three Days of Rain These birds are calling machines, sound spinning on a string, ...

Fragment The in-between-- I see it now-- my true home and its ghost

Today Was Cold April Sunday Walking under the arms of new full leaves in the spitting drizzle, everybody-- even the kids and dogs-- looked h...

Lifted At a student reading, I hear the line "I dream that my skin is new" and take heart.

Tonight for dinner-- crackers (cracked wheat) with aged parmesan, small container of blackberries, dark chocolate, a few pecans, two glasses...

Here are some recent/upcoming/ongoing developments: 1. On Saturday, I will be reading a poem or two at the THE LUNGFULL GALA RELEASE RA...

Aubade ("One of these mornings, you're going to rise up singing") I'm watching some miasmic chemical reaction between the ...

Quarrymen The friendly guy behind the desk at the storage place is telling you about Beatles Fest when suddenly it's 11 p.m. The bellige...