Writing

(after Mark Rothko) Alive, falling zero to the bone. I feel the zipper’s delicate weight,…

(after Sam Francis) Hemmed in, my eyes control the pattern. Wide open, the sexual colors…

(after Pablo Picasso) Salt drips endlessly in the mold-green runnels of these rocks, where blood…

Day and night she simulates dejection, a lachrymal bondage inflicts on those around her, those…

I Ceremonious and glandular, rancor’s king reports a wide tangent for his aim, posthumous servant…

Slung like Gloucester’s slave upon a dung Golgotha, heroic motives, delicate duties, gavotte to the…

Resplendent women dressed their long vowels, allowed unhurried earth to resume its seizure of all…

Wholesome eccentric, fear of prose remodeling his soul. Archetypal noble freak, Joris, you christened him…

Inconstancy breeds in our bones fed by our belief in the secret warfare of cells.…

Trowled from tunneled black the gaslamps’ veering blast of changeable jade: the northbound train echoes,…