Category: Poems

  • the smell of a blossoming flower, that outside of this present, i’m not sure is real, but at times get reminded as really existing  when i walk past this now-white tree  and i’m reminded that there are smells linked to this visual sensation. what is existence in the apart from reality in which i can…

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  • unknown, inhabited, former town

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    four hours from boise,and the same from mccall,at least two hours from nowhere.a left and a right, and the same again ad infinitum,this crowded car advances along what is no longera road, but what seems to be some forest service routethat rattles this hunk of metal, hurling steel to the townnamed after some tree. three…

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  • a portrait in the aftermath of a big burn

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    on the base of this mountain lie brown pine needles, sharp, dead sharp, which fell and are fallen, my footsteps depress this terra languida who i knew before this shod existence told me this once-meadow  needed to be observed but not understood. with each pass of their legislation they blocked the bright burn that broke…

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  • eulogy of an absurdist love

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    so far up the north coast, when the pacific has deemed  unnecessary the fine sands and the warm winds, and the sun, instead choosing  this gray palette and rain, everlasting rain, sits a rock on some beach cliff that will fall into the ocean dnot due to its insatiable sadness  but because of its utter…

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