Seething since 2000*
염기도: Basicity
A rewrite of 'imaginary cities: basi—', originally written in a PC Bang in Seoul during my Asialink residency in 2005.
Read it 염기도: BasicityVictor Garber blooper reel
for alicia sometimes (as usual)
Read it Victor Garber blooper reelFolding their clothes
i.m. Gunilla Bergström (1942–2021)
Read it Folding their clothesLine dancing with Matthew Rhys
for alicia sometimes
Read it Line dancing with Matthew RhysVast
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).
Read it Cars(On the Tomb of) Victor Bruce
This poem was commissioned by the Red Room Project in 2004.
Read it (On the Tomb of) Victor BruceToxic 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 (&…