Vol. 5, No. 4 Contents

He was scarcely ten years old when he was arrested for the first time for vagabondage.

My nickname at school is Tony the All-Night Pony. When I read a poem that I like I will write it down in one of my black leather journals.

Poetry, like the world, may be said to have four ages, but in a different order: the first age of poetry being the age of iron; the second, of gold; the third, of silver; and the fourth, of brass.

Too few know when they have Enough; and fewer know how to employ it.

Let observers observe the blue sky not only in winter when the earth is covered with snow, but in summer when it is covered with dark green foliage. This will help to unravel the complicated phenomena in question.

This is eternal, this lack of skill and know-how, this devout, this impractical, this inoculated pink and golden dawn, one or two languages in bed, a desk, a bureau, a table, two or three chairs. I stayed awake. I stayed among…

I woke up thinking there were beautiful people under the covers. I woke up thinking beauty had followed me home in the form of an economical soap. If only…

When I was a child, the government

tattooed my mother's blood type under

her left arm. Nuclear meltdown

was inevitable, they said. Soon, they would

flood my town to build a reservoir…

In the big fun

disaster, I revisit every place

we loved one another and cry, I fall

asleep to the same song in the back of a Jeep

night after night…

gravitino: Did I know her?

white dwarfs: boxes under the stairs

dragons: monopoles, domain walls, …banished

axion: I hear footsteps behind me

Pitch: The shy guys explode

Duration: Calculate important events to celebrate

Intensity: Dishes are broken. Loose bricks fall from buildings

Timbre: Source translation with peephole

The first was a fish skeleton.

But you don't want

the top of your head

to dart and shift

without cease.

You may already have won $10,000!

That's not what you'd hoped

to sift from passing traffic, no…

He has been hit by a train, totaled his car five times,

Nearly starved to death due to malnutrition,

Has had malignant cancer three times, has one lung,

And almost drowned to death on several occasions.

If I brush your cheek

with this finger

you'll still not know

the real poems I

had stashed for you

in that box.

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,

   Jumping from the chair she sat in;

Time, you thief, who love to get

   Sweets into your list, put that in!

Come live with me and be my Love…

There's a moment in every dog's life

when it surrenders its dogginess

to a greater good…

One weekend in June, we rushed

The shore, hoping

For a mass baptism, one

Might guess. We wore nothing,

And she carried the saddest look

Of anyone in that crowd.

I have stood beside you, saying this, as you reach into the cupboard for another stack of dry noodles. You eat them with the dead still on, with the sticky deadness still on…

Heat forces everything

nearer, a gloved hand squeezing.

On one shoulder the mourners

carry their dead…

You pull a name from the river, cradle

it to your breast. It is a twitching egg,

a pitcher of bees you wish to pour skyward.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds…

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd…

The hem of the curtain hits

the windowsill like a riding whip.

To the finish line.

The job description reads, roughly, hooked on the bang-bang

To kill you first must obfuscate, say

"Ammo more expensive than a gun"

"Let's buy a bullet! Who's got bread?"

A bagful of nickels in exchange for a bagful of black detergent that smelled of sliced oranges. They even shook on it.