Lovers’ Altar after we made love I removed your spine being careful to entice every little bit of sinew imagine the moon lying on its dark side imagine teeth giving and receiving surf the brim of your skull above water your orgasm like a...

Negative Capability your beautiful life Rosa buzzing in my ears you built a dam from clever one I could not cross pensive mountains in your brown hands not much left in the box except tall blonde eggs your charmed life in a purse my lungs fill...

The Fall Of Troy my thumbprint on your lips the simmering inside of you a pocketknife of hair hollers from its haunches I take a pencil with me to the quarry I love you in a narrow ore I fought the Trojans for you wearing only a bell for armor the...

Words Are Just The Cousin Of Desire I open the book of your poems pry open its sweetness like thighs the pocket of a verb lashes its angel to hue a tough word oppresses a weaker word two strangers in the same well look up and smile the childish...

The Word There are things about me you don’t know said the Word The Word was long and short wide and narrow if you will in a dim lit room it was bright in a bright room it darkened soft and hard long and short again skinny and fat dead and...