The universe expands its dark arms around meThe heavy black depths of time stretch infiniteand this pale skin pressed against this dark clothshines only briefly…
Category: poetry
Old Back-Turn
Your blind-eye blessings were enoughWe’re undoneYou won, old back-turnOld apathyOld not-this-time-friend We withered under that blessingWe’re lessenedYou flattened us,Young ham-fist,Young market-first, Young what-the-people-want But my spirit…
Counting down
Two thousand one thousand five hundred noneSome shake their sad heads while others make funAll watching and waiting til everyone’s goneTwo thousand to one thousand…
Storm Knot
They cut the knot,let loose the tumult.This ship is sinking, they scream;women and Children first. The storm carries an ice harvest.It cuts to the bone,drops…
Winter
I’ve been down the long highway to La Sciewhen it’s walled by snow so highthe great yellow grader needs a bucket with holesso the snow…
The Product
The engine roars and water dripsoff the back of a tractor traileras it tips up a hill on the Baie Verte highwayand I think this…
Behind My Eyes They are Coming
Many moons old, but effective for what it was. Comeonmotherfuckersyoufuckingpricks Come and get it My teeth are raging spittle My hands are bursting fists At a…
Untitleable
Her eyes are only closed for a moment, it seems, little hands in little fists, little lips cold and closed, her mother standing guard as…
Last Supper
In any other place you would sinkto the ground and cry your eyes drybut not here – plates and cups clinkand the crowd gathers round…