List #1
- 5 years, 7 months
- 17 years, 10 months
- 1 year, 8 months
- 11 months
- 7 years, 1 month
- 9 months
- 5 months
- 6 years, 1 month
- 3 months
- 5 months
- 4 years, 9 months
- 5 years, 10 months
spine poem #5
Locusts at the edge of
summer, harping on all day.
Permanent red blood:
tin, straw, ashes.
For breakfast: scrambled
eggs and whiskey.
“A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral after it was devastated by a fire will soon be opened and its secrets revealed, French archaeologists said Thursday.”
What could possibly go wrong?
Rabbits, thunder, red squirrels.
spine poem #4
Bedouin of the London
evening, nobody’s
Ezekiel, seeing
things of no country
I know — things
stirring together
or far away, imaginary
vessels, terrible blooms.
A book is never more fascinating and alluring than when it’s being placed in a cardboard box to be stored for an unknown length of time.
spine poem #3
The novice insomniac, sleeping
with the dictionary, calling a wolf
a wolf…
My vocabulary did this to me.
Fox, spiders, finches.
After six years on a shelf, my old Olivetti has a room of its own.
spine poem #2
Stealing sugar
from the castle,
playing the black
piano, passing
through broken
hierarchies: the heart
is strange.
