très riches heures xi
when my son was very small he had two ways of denoting events in the past: they happened ‘you know, last time’ (near past) or ‘a long time ago, when i was...
bad together
i have imagined you there out west where no one knows your story: free to make a new one, or none at all if that’s what you wanted. like everything else...
exegesis
music, travel, love, change, loss, hope, music. can I have your autograph/he said to the fat blonde actress[1] i have an approach to travel preparation which...
preci sjede na ćilima
in this image our words are doing the circle dance, the one you see at weddings, or other feasts — I know you know the one, i know that you do it too....
dispatch from the mother country
little note: it will not have escaped you that i sometimes/often write some cursed things about how my mother is falling apart, and what it is like to...
très riches heures x
elephants call each other by name, study finds sometimes something strikes you just so: the way the light of late afternoon streams through a window perhaps...
happy anniversary to the wolf
i saw grinning on the shoulder of highway 17 near ignace that one time i believe you are still out there in some kind of way, just as i am. i think i...
godzilla key version 1
remember dichotomous keys? this isn’t really one. at any moment in time i promise you there are at least 17 of my brain cells which are collectively thinking...
sculling
in the little park next to the lake where i row, he’s frozen mid stroke at the half. whatever genius the sculptor had was spent entirely in getting his...
we spent the grandchildren’s inheritance and i regret nothing
how she loved words. the house was garlanded with them, the likes of which i never heard outside: facetious, gallivant, amoral, disingenuous, sarcasm. she...
ortolan
it came to me later, easily: a stupid metaphor, certainly, but seeing you thrashing like a caught bird against your sheets this is what i thought of. i was...
très riches heures: the ship of theseus
when i visited you today you told me that you had found work there, they had asked you a few questions and were so impressed by your answers that they asked...
ouimet
this canyon is so deep that arctic lichens are said to grow on its floor, brought there by some glacier that dragged herself over the land once. i have a...
away away
where does everything go when it’s gone? i don’t know but maybe we can drive there, you know i don’t care about the weather, it can shine or storm in equal...
très riches heures viii
i have such a deep respect for spring, how it overthrows me every time no matter how much i imagine i have braced myself: over i go into the swift current...
très riches heures vii
in the month of forever the teachers went on strike and two girls carefully removed a bottle, just one, of a father’s 2-4 case of beer, ov or blue ribbon,...
my mother remembered how to walk so now at night she runs
did i tell you i ran away? well i did, last night. are you surprised? well don’t be. i woke up and i thought that’s it screw this i’m out of here and i put...
no title
dyed my hair, left a thick grey streak in the underneath of it like a bad road, crooked. went out and counted birds, some on a wire some on the wing. flew...
très riches heures vi
that thing you do, the one with your mouth when you are thinking, he said, today. what a sharp little noticer, i thought. i like to notice small things too:...
waitress talk
me, i made money because i was so young, and had a look on me like a trembling baby calf, big eyes and all. i expect the customers felt some kind of pity, or...