“Advice for Beginner Poets,” “Asters & Irises,” and “Autumn is a tiger”
Conjure a faun in the middle of field.
There’s a cabin in the distance, homespun
& brown, & the thick-torso’d wild turkeys
march a few feet away, leaving dinosaur
tracks in their wake.
Don’t let any of this stop you.
There’s a cabin in the distance, homespun
& brown, & the thick-torso’d wild turkeys
march a few feet away, leaving dinosaur
tracks in their wake.
Don’t let any of this stop you.
“The Choosing,” “Raveled,” and “Last Judgment”
Fly from that house
clad in cotton dress & aviator cap
with its cracked leather—you knew you’d need it
someday.
Ride mistral through
a sky casting its greys over a landscape
brown with mud & blonde with barley spikes
bending.
clad in cotton dress & aviator cap
with its cracked leather—you knew you’d need it
someday.
Ride mistral through
a sky casting its greys over a landscape
brown with mud & blonde with barley spikes
bending.