Nothing is all I ever wanted, now I’ve got it all! Careful! Lest I become a braggart… From nowhere it’s a hard fall.

I remember being unmoved at more than one funeral at more than one memorial looking about impatiently impervious to the cries of the cry…

The Rock made me to see each month as a day. The Rock implored that I be patie… with a patience so radical it slips into renunciation

There is a stream of what could have been which flows on with the same rate and newness of what is.

Finally alone, I lie with a volum… I venture again to hear the injunc… normally I savor their sensitivity… but tonight all I can think about

A tide of blood, miniature in compare— But an ocean no less, to the virus in there.

Mowing with the sickle I stop abruptly and remember crawling out the window to smoke on the roof

There, upon the loose dirt, I was a stone’s throw from her, Goddess Incarnate. She had snakes for hair, she had green flames for eyes,

Oh, Death! Two beers and I’m on my back! Skipped the shower, skipped the toothbrush. Just a film of sweat,

I know people see him and think, “Gee, that’s crazy.” Which makes it embarrassing to see him

Like a Somali pirate just pull up on the Grim Reaper, surprise him

When I see the little holes where the earrings used to be I wonder what they embraced and then renounced to get to now.

There was on my property an old gnarled stump, it was weathered and hardened, It was aesthetically pleasing as d… but I decided to take it to a spec…

I saw him on the side of the road, on the side of the interstate exit… Maybe he was 18, definitely not 21… tired but not yet haggard. The moment I saw him

Love is endless. Mercy, too. A great debt unpaid, sitting on my doorstep, first-class.