My memory’s erratic and tonight
I can’t locate your name – four syllables
just out of sight, hiding amongst the reeds
Bird out of place, you were a wonder.
I watched you from my kitchen window –
stilted ballerina, bright incongruity,
following our horses through the winter mud,
stepping in their hoof prints, day after day
through the fearsome months, delicate,
as if escaped from a dream: a puzzlement.
I looked for the message you had …
this urge to drive somewhere—what is it?
from a fast window, even brown grass
looks exciting. rolling into town, the smell
of burnt apples. grandpas, babies, tattooed
teens squint in harsh sunlight as if …
Here is the inventory of stone I
could not bring myself to make
and instead I have simply
photographed where stones have
been left on turned …
When I moved to northern New Jersey in 2012 and took a software test engineering job in midtown Manhattan, I suddenly found myself with an hour-long bus commute. I’d solved …
‘The Mother of Parliaments’
is having a nervous breakdown
as we gather your things
switch off and leave the house.
The trees shake in this storm
as the day shakes in …
One may speak, one may not speak.
One may speak, one may bespeak.
What if we are two if we are one.
One may see, one may not see.
One may …
He came to me in a dream, wet as a newborn in his new skin. I readied him for a bowl of bitter world (the cathedral two blocks away from …
by Brian Clements when you walk up the stairs and open the door to your office, switch on the light and the heat, and pull back your chair, or work equals force …
Sometimes the surprise arrives with four boys dressed as crows Parting winter streets and a light that levitates cement and palm After the long rains cease and the air begins …
I am in a eucalyptus grove next to a playground. I am seven, or eight, my school is Catholic, and recess begins and ends with a bell that stings. You …
