염기도: Basicity
A rewrite of 'imaginary cities: basi—', originally written in a PC Bang in Seoul during my Asialink residency in 2005.
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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.
Victor Garber blooper reel
for alicia sometimes (as usual)
Folding their clothes
i.m. Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021)
Line dancing with Matthew Rhys
for alicia sometimes
Vast
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…
Ray
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…
Cars
This poem first appeared in Jacket (#8, 1999).
(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce
This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.
Toxic Gulf
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 (&…
