Month: June 2019

  • Untitled love poem for him

    [14 June 2019] He movesand I feel him move,running, chasing, gracing, panting, gasping, grasping an always and indelibly almost-mine –the he in me and the I in him,where all other things being equal(yet altogether new and all the better for it), and I move; in line I will be moving,moving back,going back,going in;and somehow, almost…

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  • Il y a un an

    [13 June 2019] The note of self-same strings struck, Plucked, and tell something just beyond the tune Of autonomous knowing and self-knowing; fires (The tone is richer for it);A story, a longing, just beyond reach, Over the bridge and beyond the water Bearer, beyond the reach of the scales of justice Or the serpent or…

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  • The Diary of Shikibu Izumi

    [12 June 2019] 吳竹のうきふししけき世中にあらしとそ思ふ暫しはかりも There’s something magnetic charismatic even poetic about the way you wrote your own eulogy (rhapsodies and melodies of a forgotten time kept alive by sheer repetition) くれ竹のよゝのふる事おもほゆる昔かたりは我のみそせん so I carved your name into the asphalt by the corner store on October the twenty third at eight-o-clock in the morning 梅は早咲にけりとておれはちる花とそ雪のふるは見えける and…

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  • The Joy of Saint Barnabas

    [11 June 2019] And so we wander to and fro, You and I, Smelling of sandstone and sawdust Dapple-dangling Orion from his heavenly perch (The incense died out last night but the smell lingers on): Empty streets and wicker baskets and laborious effort Shape could-not-have-beens into Dumas and Aeschylus And Bonaparte, Leading you to wonder…

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  • The Criterion, 9PM, 1921

    [10 June 2019] They all were summoned to the party – a rather gay affair – while most of them attended, not everybody came.

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  • Ganymede

    [7 June 2019] A human, a man Ostensibly Standing Perched between two sets of railway ties Hovering without touching the ground Your suspended sentience mimics The muddled clarity of the lines of a Malfatti Or a Hepworth Signifying Something ethereal Wholly new and timeless And weighty A boy Pushing into something far more significant Than…

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  • Tuesday Night [a character sketch]

    [6 June 2019] We wander down to the wharf, empty street, empty water, empty bags in hand, and ponder there a little while, like a woman on the birthing table, watching the sun set over the water and fade into the land: anaesthetised, but expectant. You smile, and your eyes dim. The sea-salt spray washes…

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  • On Happiness, Harmony, and Joy

    [5 June 2019] I am writing a slightly different sort of piece today as a response to the chain-letter-post that I was recently tagged in by my lovely friend Kristian. Please follow that link to check out her response and her blog. I am definitely a fan! I am very excited to share a couple…

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  • June

    [4 June 2019] June, and construction noise mingles with the smell of donuts and car exhaust and slips down the alleyway between the church and the brothel and fan out across the highways and the lakes and the fields and the chrysanthemums bloom out from underneath the manhole cover on 23rd Street.

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  • Taurus, Part Two

    [3 June 2019] 23. 7:00 – 9:00. “You really are a shameless flirt, aren’t you?” I can’t believe I said that out loud. My face reddens slightly. I feel the prickles of heat rising to my cheeks. He laughs. Honey and amber and orange peel. “Absolutely incorrigible.” Incorrigible. Incurable. Intractable. Hopeless. Incorrigible. That’s a word…

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