Poems

Escapees from the Zoo

Rattle / May 24, 2009

How did they climb over the natural barricades of woven branches, thorned with rebuke? The emu’s legs were not long […]

Rattle / May 23, 2009

If after a July dinner party the noise outside the back door drowns out your thank-you’s and good-bye’s and your

Rattle / May 21, 2009

The horizontal clouds above Molokai and Lanai are turning pearly. I sit with a cigarette looking through the interstices of

Rattle / May 17, 2009

Out here on Route 38, I’ve learned the difference between noise and sound. Sound is familiar: the whirr and clank

Rattle / May 16, 2009

It was in that phase of pure sarcasm, midteens, when guys work out an awkward stance, work their pack’s patter

Rattle / May 13, 2009

after Imogen Cunningham She had studied the art of the tea ceremony in Nagasaki before the war and said that,