Poem FOURTEEN has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 30 August 2016.

This is not about the kitchen table The kitchen table never touches the floor, hangs from the wall like a shelf. The kitchen table where we ate so many dinners, its three sides and the three of us. The kitchen table where we read the…

Poem TWELVE has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 29 August 2016.

endangered if you mean to discuss loss do not save end for last nor begin with red which will stain all that follows feather and scale horn and hoof tender your attentions on anger and apathy the danger of greed agile rapists in Eve’s garden…

Poem TEN has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 28 August 2016.

The dog rolls over, her belly a map of the world — islands and continents freckled on a pink sea. Iceland soft and smooth with fine blond hairs. Polynesia. Sri Lanka. On the inner flank of her hind leg the Galapagos, where blue-footed boobies splatter…

Poem EIGHT has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 26 August 2016.

From the Pacific Ocean the land sprawled eastward wide and flat, crossed by dry stream beds and arroyos carved by twice-a-century rainstorms — gullies roughened with dust-coated weedy scrub that sheltered small brown lizards. The hills heaved from that unpromising plain oily green, sage-scented, parched…

Poem SIX has been removed and now appears on chocolate is a verb, 27 August 2016.

At the top of the fence across the meadow a curl of wire lies crushed beneath the alder spilled from its stand in November and still unrepaired come May though the bear cubs ascend the slender ramp in furry romp watched by the huffing sow…