Are Your Affairs In Order?

Are Your Affairs In Order?

  My wife and I are into season 3 of Victoria, the Masterpiece Theatre series that seems as long as the queen’s monarchial reign. It’s a slow-moving narrative in which a tea cup is picked up, put down. Then, for dramatic tension, the camera pans to a terrier...
Changes

Changes

  The river changed course By three feet. Thus the willow withers from thirst. Thus the rock is set alone like an altar. Thus the grassy hill browns. One father changes course By several streets. He gets away from family. He gets away from divorced his spouse. He...
Bodily Resume

Bodily Resume

The third line on my brow— It arrived last night. The crosshatches around the mouth— They speak for me. My hair surrenders to wind. My fuck-you finger is romancing my thumb. The slouch, the crippled penmanship, My earlobes of Buddha, The smile that reveals a...
Some Words About Proverbs

Some Words About Proverbs

I’ve played my part as tourist in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, I skipped out of the way of ring-chiming bicycles. I drank Amstel beer under an awning while an afternoon rain dotted the surface water of the Singel canal. I nearly petted the head of an approachable...