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.

Catwalk for Dummies

eat your cake! there isn’t any more “keep your eyes glued to the floor” left foot first then right & left again ladies pretend you’re gentle (ben, listen for the compere’s little rhyme our DJ sets the beats: just keep…

P.A.

testing ah testing one two three four five six – is this thing on? can you hear me up the back there? no? okay how about now? that’s good that’s better (okay damn the PA what i came here to…

Ernie Malvern

To chew on grass in the sunshine. To lick at the yolks of eggs, or bright & fern-dappled sunlight out in the yard. The trees crack like whips & faraway the southerly, the change comes. It’s worst at night, beneath…

Betty Malvern

Betty Malvern with a bee. Here’s my sisterly path, the secret way. Through the woods, into the sunlight for a sec. Token uniform a spot of brown by the creek. Small whorls of dirt in the clear water, like washing…

Alicia Malvern

They don’t believe in fairies but I do. You don’t believe in fairies, do you? I have seen them, and you’re wrong. I’ll bide my time, until they all come back to visit. They like to hide inside jacaranda trees.…

The Day Britney Died

was standing in the bathroom shaving my head when the news came through about how britney had died & i just choked up you know i had an emotional malfunction kept scratching my face like some academic stunned by the…