#AmericanWriters
—The Carpathian Frontier, Octobe… —for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was… I was driving south toward a large… For so little it had a replica, in…
Applying to Heavy Equipment Scho… I marched farther into the Great… And refused to come out. I threw up a few scaffolds of disi… Around me in the fields, the hogs…
My poem would eat nothing. I tried giving it water but it said no, worrying me. Day after day,
There is this sunny place where I… A park on a hill whose grass wants… Into dust, & would do so if it… For the rain, & the fact that… That keeps the park from flowing d…
My love and I are inventing a cou… can already see taking shape, as i… passing through yellow mud. But th… lem: if we put a river in the coun… and begin flooding. If we put the…
My youth? I hear it mostly in the… Echoes of billiards in the pool ha… I spent it all, extravagantly, bel… My delicate touch on a cue would l… Outside the vineyards vanished und…
There are places where the eye can… But not here. Here, for example,… The Piazza Navona, & here is… Overlooking the Steps & the c… Tourists. And here is the Protest…
The brow of a horse in that moment… The horse is drinking water so dee… It seems to inhale the water, is h… I refuse to explain. When the horse had gone the water…
Looking into the eyes of Gerard d… You notice the giant sea crabs ris… Which is what happens When you look into the eyes of Ge… Always the same thing: the giant s…
“Prince Jesus, crush those bastar… ‘Francois Villon, Grand Testam… It is the unremarkable that will l… As in Brueghel’s camouflage, wher… While elsewhere on a hill, small h…
Some called it the Summer of Love… Motionless leaves that overhung th… As ever, the same as they did ever… Anybody with three dollars could h… And who wouldn’t want to know what…
The plaza was so still in that mom… everything was clear, As if it had been preserved beneat… stillness, &, for a while, I did not even notice the pigeons…
One was a bay cowhorse from Piedr… And both stood at the rail of the… In each effortless tail swish, the… Around their eyes & muzzles &a… Their front teeth were by now as y…
My father once broke a man’s hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John D… Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill his… With a sharpened fruit knife, &… The curved tip of it, lightly, bet…