Archive for the 'Poetry' Category

Underneath

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Fell asleep at the wheel. Wake up under seven inches of snow. Frosted breath glistens on every porthole onto the gray sediment. I hear my heart pounding Let me out! Spill forth to join something unknown. An ancient memory in my bones. I take a moment to consider the world I’ve left behind this unbroken [...]

Hurricane Jaded

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Katrina was bad. Swished around New Orleans like a gold prospector panning for gleaming nuggets. Only unearthed something real ugly. Instead of ugliness, now, we’d prefer to be faced with the banal. Hurricane fever, you might call it. Suddenly! battered-looking reporters gushing first impressions, concern heavy in their voices, are starting to seem a lot [...]

Reduction

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

What I need to relieve my dry eyes is a good cry. Tell me I’ve not grown those years I was gone. Reduce me to your greatest vision of me: Obedient automaton. (孩子不是人。) Incapable by design to see the flaws of a hypocritical maker. In whose image. To whose image one shouldn’t compare. We are [...]

Parting Iambs

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Inchworm scaling misty thread of far shores Pitch drunk dagger deep down Kullu dusk to flee you? see who?

Mirror

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Sometimes, You 有时有你 You’ve found someone else I’ve stopped looking for now You know, I wonder how you are since a construction paper wall now bars me from your inner world I doesn’t matter whether you still think of me, or if I’ve disappeared from among those significant memories I am not a martyr demanding [...]


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