Monthly Archives: May 2005

next week the circus
“rain or shine”
men home from war
another election, battered ballot
redemption song
tom dooley on the banjo, followed by “when the saints go marching in” on the trumpet
the news at 10
praying without ceasing
five o’clock shadow
the bend of a second-day tulip
rice and beans
synthetic fabrics
a haiku about love

earth laid over a frame
a salt-swollen sandbox full
with two schools of halibut

a relative rang. i couldn’t speak
long- i was on my way out
to the market to purchase
some knuckle-grass. it’s so sweet
this time of year. i called
for a cab a half-an-hour
prior. a woman was driving,
it was raining. the puddles were
filling with letters of the alphabet. the ones
i had been planning to write
down for you. they were being
washed […]