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April 8, 2025
What My Albatross Steals
Storms are a delight for my albatross. This diver sails giddy on gusts, soaring over volcanoes Threatening to erupt, unspooling lava fields That...
Michael Varga
March 25, 2025
The Wounded Gazelle Look
After you depart, I act on your request: To a mountaintop or to the Ganges. To seek a Somewhere for ashes to scatter....
March 5, 2025
Weapons We Jettison For Something Truer
War fused us. Vietnam left you leery of spider holes; Chad left me mourning a midnight escape. But poets don’t thrive in fear...
September 3, 2024
The Bunny on Wilton Drive
A sculptor shares his Thunder Bunny. The Blueness of it hints of hidden graces. Pedestrians pass it daily, hardly looking, And to them,...
September 18, 2003
A Camel-Trader’s Gift
Hot beams curl ‘round horses’ flanks, Bright arcs branded deep into fly-buzzed flesh, And as I tread afraid a camel-trader sketches A sign...
September 20, 1984
when Black poets congregate
When Black poets congregate I try to hide the gift Pocketed out of Africa. Like a heavy phallus, Smooth and used to pounding...
September 20, 1983
The Love Between: To Any Place Springfield*
The love between them spills Beyond the groves that divide Like arms loosely tossed Across an unmade bed, asleep....
September 20, 1982
For A Lover, Unseen
Not your hands, my love, nor your ordered caresses so long elating my split heart free of its splintered crutch, widening a soul’s...
September 20, 1981
Mwah Gran Gou*
Alleluia Alleluia Amen Alleluia Alleluia Amen Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Amen....
September 20, 1981
The Rawly Linked
Mainmast’s pendulum totters on the brink Freely swinging to meet waves’ ends; Shadowed below, fetid blackness blends Flaying the prone cargo so rawly...