2.29.12

We'd arranged to meet in the woods. An old cabin - gutted. filled with leaves roof half-open to the rain. And it was. raining. The path was dark. mud-filled full of leaves and pine needle glut the sludge of nature. There was no light. only the heaving dark. The heavy trees and their drip of years. All that rain. My feet foundered. branches slapped my face - like hands (like branches) I knew what he wanted. I knew how it would end. And I went anyway.

2.28.12

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2.27.12

2.26.12

Sunday as: diapause. or
the heart's own jacquerie.
when every morning suggests: the Rubicon.
the quotidian revolt of a taciturn heart.
or
the lackadaisical drowning by inches.
by moments.
the encomiums of those we do not love.
is no respite.
when diapause becomes:
forever. past. present. future.

2.26.12

2.25.12

2.25.12

fingerprint. as if on my spine. (the base of.)
the way the wind blows so hard today.
scythe and axe. a spray of spring flowers.
we are all alone here. everyone of us.

2.24.12

2.24.12

words. not unlike rain. often refuse to fall. when and where they're most needed. dropped vowels. the silence of certain consonants. All the ways there are to lie. the way he often lies. or smokers. and their smoke. the arrogance of. how words are like. smoke. though sometimes. instead. like flails. like irons fresh from the fire. like the forever string of phrases that can never be expunged. like memory. like the memory of rain.

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2.20.12

skipping stone.
the dark precincts of the mind.
ledge of horizon. grasping - fingers. splayed.remembers. before. every day.
remembering: we choose what we remember.

2.20.12

2.19.12

a successful dive?
is one
you return from.

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2.13.12 House on fire falling from sky

2.12.12

a rare gift.
like a day without pity. or clouds. or
a clock that runs silent. perfectly on time. always. or
a smile that asks for nothing in return. or
maybe just silence. or the memory of silence.

2.12.12

2.11.12

2.10.12

"togan se" means "he takes" "thog se" means "he took" "cosain" means "to defend" "dibir" means "to banish" "bi" means "to be" "Taim" means "I am" "ni dhearna se" means "he did not go" "Deirim" means "I say" "Deirim ni dhearna se" means "I say he did not go." "brisfidh me" means "I shall break" "Dofaidh me" means "I shall burn" "an bhfeicfeadh se?" means "would he see?"

2.9.12

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2.6.12

dusk. a narrow lane.
the spread of the collapsed building all over the square.
jaws of bulldozers black teeth against the sky.
dust patterns across streetlights, sidewalks, walls, fingers.
and the moon: the moon is fat & white & near full to bursting.

2.5.12

descend from gripped steps.

past nails coming lose. and

the stain where someone fell. 10 years ago.

walls. pale yellow. bubbling

from damp.

descend from gripped steps.

into the soot-filled city.

2.5.12

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2.2.12

"Ta me" means "I am"

"Nil fir na gasnir anseo" - there are neither men nor children here.

"Nach bhfuil" - don't think

"Ta doras ann" - there is a door in it

"Ceist ar bith?" - Any questions?

2.1.12

2.1.2

to my valentine.

push. slap. bone. crunch. grind. drip. swing. pop.

I know more moves that you've learned in all your years

swinging your fat dangle around swinging your fat guitar

there is not one word you could say I have not heard before.

there is not one place you could take me I have not been.

if you were to bring me a hothouse full it would still not be

enough. and

if you were to feed me a country full it would still not be

enough.

You shiver at the slightest breeze. freeze at the smallest word.

Your world is smaller than the tip of my smallest finger.

there is not one syllable you could tongue I have not licked and

better and there is not one fold you could unfold that would

change any of this.

if you were to bring me a museum full it would still not be

enough. and

if you were to drown me an ocean full it would still not be

enough.