The Lion’s Arena
The lions’ arena is full of medical equipment The roar of the lions is the great radiation ring whirring The crowd leaning for…
The lions’ arena is full of medical equipment The roar of the lions is the great radiation ring whirring The crowd leaning for…
If I should die tonight it would be like stepping out onto a big pond’s lily pads with all the other frogs combing out…
Note to readers These poems are begun by an inspired first line or two, and during this particular development from poem to po…
We’re all sweat and boils sweat and scabs scraping with potsherds The whole thing comes down while irony and nonchalance aboun…
It’s all moving forward in time All horses’ noses create the finish line Each flame tip tickles the underbelly of heaven Each …
Seeing the scaffold at the end of the road or a steamroller coming toward you or a herd of elephants bearing down or looking…
The first sailboat out had nowhere to go but forward out into pure outness The light slitted down in louvered doors that swung…
Good Cheer came and sat among the cynics “What evidence do you have?” they asked putting on snarl cougar masks and long piggy …
The shoemaker saw that angelic shoes miraculously surrounded his feet a perfect fit The hoop flyer soared up and through with …
O God of the sliver that fells a giant of the gnat that burrows into the brain of Nimrod (such a famous drilling to…
Of course the essence of it all is love How else explain the hardest blackest coal nugget turns to diamond clenched in earth’s…
The night was perched all around with hooting owls on branches in the dark some flying with their enormous wings in constant i…