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Category: Poems

As of October 2011, I’d posted over three hundred poems on this site, including many sonnets and search poems, as well as numerous poems that didn’t make it into chapbooks such as Abendland and Morgenland. I then ceased posting poems here, choosing instead to distribute them via my poem of the week newsletter. Then I stopped doing that too. Every now and then I post a poem here … but not as often as I’d like.

  • TERMINAL 1: AER LINGUS

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    “A dictionary of shelter” —John Tranter, “Lufthansa”

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  • 염기도: Basicity

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    A rewrite of ‘imaginary cities: basi—’, originally written in a PC Bang in Seoul during my Asialink residency in 2005.

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  • Victor Garber blooper reel

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    for alicia sometimes (as usual)

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  • Folding their clothes

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    i.m. Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021)

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  • Line dancing with Matthew Rhys

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    for alicia sometimes

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  • Vast

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    You could take Brazil in an afternoon, sure. Knock yerself out, call me when yr done, etc. Consider that continent’s arc: it’s gesturing across the Atlantic, towards Ghana, or was it Côte d’Ivoire, or both? — you decide, call me when it’s done. Let us speak of it forever, or more. Speak of vast hillsides…

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  • Ray

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    it’s a shame (about ray? no, just the way the sunlight hits the window’s triple-glaze revealing all your childrens’ fingerprints & you thought you’d cleaned it yesterday that pristine pane never stood a chance anyway (you mutter to yourself, leaning in to some andante (or was it al dente? never! solo piano courtesy of a…

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  • Cars

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    This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).

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  • (On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce

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    This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.

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  • Toxic Gulf

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    years since the gap first appeared between the teeth of a little girl picking raspberries from her mother’s hand by the poisoned stream a toxic tale of porcelain has traced its tiny fingers round the lines on contour maps (& their bedroom walls they stick our portraits & sit up for haircuts while you look…

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  • Executive Orders

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    1. Make broccoli delicious again.

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  • You have memories

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    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 kicked in and you lay there, boiling, and unable to feel the sweat rolling down…

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  • 포악: Atrocity

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    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—’.

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  • A movie set in the Middle East

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    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 frighten you too? The way documentaries used to? A criminal mastermind sits in a barbershop,…

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  • haiku-whitman-moon

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    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

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