Basic Needs
Listen,
I could tell you about the hot cat shit
That lay in the hallway
Just outside of my mother’s bedroom
Awards
Palimpsest
We’re bicycling through the Tiergarten
on a summer morning in Berlin,
my wife and I, our son in his bike seat,
and it really is a lovely day …
Conduction
The man drives as closely to my car
as he can without making contact.
His truck window is down.
My Uncle Teaches Me About Prayer
the early blue-sky bird sings
and in my half-sleep i say
hohou!
Love Letter to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
The photos taken from helicopters are really quite beautiful …
The Morning You Saw a Train of Stars Streaking Across the Sky
five years and you forgot
the excitement of being on a mountain.
early morning, before the hunt, blurred hours
between night and day.