Category: Poems
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the pretension of pain
the pretension of pain as if you are the first across the millennia the only, the ultimate among the billions the pretension of painas if all the oceans don’t shame your tearsall the thunderstormsweaker than your woes the pretension of painas if it will destroy youas if it will lift you upto a sorrowing and craggy…
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Dark Ages
He says we are entering a new dark age. I wonder whose words will survive,Copied by tired hands by candlelight,Sheltered in stone towers while storms rage outside,One day to be dusted off and discovered;Delighted in: look at what embers still burnFrom the old dark age. I know not much was salvaged—How many scraps of poems…
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Growing Up
growing up just seems to be a long litany of loving people and losing them outside in the cold there are two stars visible. the rest of the light comes from our building’s front steps—“just when you get comfortable,” my friend says, shaking her head just when the roots curl safe and strong around each…
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how my friends say I love you
i try to justify my exhaustion, slap a label on it complete with dosage instructions and warnings written in cramped letters. i hand it out to everyone i meet, mumbling apologetically but also desperate that they read it through. . i am amazed when some people rip off the label and toss it away, say,…
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Once When I Was Young
Once when I was youngI read about the men on a mission to the moonhow it raised a nationa peoplea planetto the heavens and I cried because I couldn’t understandhow it was fifty years onand we hadn’t gone back Once when I was youngI read about the bomb in the sky above the city how…
A Glimpse of Starlight 