Midwest Houses
Full of a million things
that cost a dollar apiece
Bottomlands Dream
The boy fell from the Monahegnee Bridge,
and his parents buried him, and the years
were a cottonmouth swimming in an oxbow
lake, and the boy became an owl as he fell
The Breaks
I’ve a friend who says, “Treat anything mechanical
as if it’s just about to break.”
Ode to the Cop Next to the One with the Pepper Spray
Your cheek turns, Christ-like
from your buddy with the buddha
belly blowing chemicals
on crowds of my students.
Rapunzel
Think what it must have been like for her, caged
in her tower, the small window cut into dark
stone, the hours it took to brush