Jackson

She is small and full of glee, a laugh made of bone and bright fluff Her fur is soft, brown, long, spiked out not as punk but as puff When I come to her gate she dips and jumps and speaks with yaps and yips that shine in the air She runs to me and Read more

Broken hearts rattle      like shell-shards in a      tobacco tin The shrieks of bayoneted babies The groans of beaten babies The call of babies      wailing for love The dead eyes of dissociated babies The silence of babies      whose hearts are broken In Uganda, where the warlords— In Afghanistan, where the soldiers— In Australia, where the preachers Read more

Waking on his narrow temporary bed, surprised without his face, he looks at me with unshuttered tenderness. I make us breakfast and we each continue with our work. Soon he shall be out there somewhere chasing some fresh and pretty girl He shall nuzzle into her, mouth and mind Outgrow her, chase another Or be Read more

wanna be outta this chip- board decons- truction, this ar- id plane of rep- eated monoch- rome tags, rust, car- casses, wreck- age, raz- or sedges, death- wish trees, com- pacted, shallow, ac- id dirt, shat- tered stones, bone- dry names wanna pack up my collected and selected seeds, and those that have arrived in Read more

brush with that nightskin this dayskin. tangential coatmerge. totem furs. chimpgirl. panther. chill chubby sunmemory, thinlimbed mist. faintly known. vibrational. space-hung. zone. locus. taint inspiration, carnal miasma. turning. pacing. turning. pacing. focus. flash flood of star-mangled breath just outside the scent markers of the gang boss just outside the territory of the tribe as they Read more