Seething since 2000*
Executive Orders
1. Make broccoli delicious again.
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You have memories
You have memories, sure, but then who doesn’t know where you live these days? Camping out in the wilderness until the controversy blew over seemed like a good idea at the time, of course, but that was before the anaesthetics…
포악: Atrocity
In 2005 I travelled to Seoul to write a series of prose poems in PC Bangs (Korean Internet cafes) about imaginary cities. This one was originally called 'imaginary cities: atro—'.
Read it 포악: AtrocityA movie set in the Middle East
Somewhere, someone’s filming a movie set in the Middle East. It’s not the Middle East but we’re led to believe we’re there, in a crowded marketplace, waiting for something to happen. Does that scare you? It’s supposed to. Does it…
haiku-whitman-moon
haiku saucer in the sky moon rises over whitman tablecloth of stars whitman cold as white whitman cold as haiku whitman moon walt whitman as haiku moon haiku face of sky whitman rising over moon flying saucer stars
Lieve
Lieve, the day we found out that you were here, and on your way, it was a hot summer day in December. Kathleen and I were in Sydney, Australia, staying in a little old surfer’s apartment at Clovelly. It was…
대담시: Audacity
This is a rewrite of 'imaginary cities: auda—', a prose poem originally written in a PC Bang during my Asialink residency in Seoul in 2005.
Read it 대담시: AudacityInvisible Moon
there has to be an invisible moon over on the other side of the sun gravitationally drawing me to you how else can i explain these forces lifting me out of my dreams to float like a silver balloon out…
dress young
This poem was first published in Page Seventeen (2010) and also appeared in my privately-published chapbook Final Friday (2010).
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