Poems

A Poem for Valentine’s Day

Rattle / July 22, 2008

I swore I wouldn’t write a poem today. Instead, I decided, I would do my taxes. So here I am, […]

Rattle / July 20, 2008

She’s sick but determined to celebrate my coming for the second round of chemo. She stuffs her bra with shoulder

Rattle / July 19, 2008

Coincidentally the summer when the gazelles at the ecotarium kept jumping the fences most of my married friends were having

Rattle / July 16, 2008

Flames incinerate our years of studied play. It had been an old pig barn, and we squealed to have it

Rattle / July 13, 2008

You don’t know what it’s like, bugs eating you from the inside out. They devoured any food I ate so

Rattle / July 10, 2008

They pose. Young bodies mirrored to infinity. Curves defined by underwire. They model, Clothes dangling price tags like jewelry. They