The Continent Behind the College
A Soiree at the Sanitarium
A mother is killed on the highway, her fawn hovering over her body. By philosophy's time we're counted
broke.
My cat is a rolling prime number on hot brick. The bricks wobble, convalesce, and hallucinate. The
sanitarium has theme and piano, a tour about, and special beverage experiments.
We pray for the gift of longer life sentences. On the continent behind the
college, many boys and girls lie resting.
The Dark Eye
We're good ninety percent of the time. We look work right in its dark eye.
The continent behind the college is spreading. It's not nonsense; it's Friday.
An artist unhangs his show.
How the cracks between rocks and bricks fill with thyme, text and pots
with sun, a television mutters, a mood shutters.
When you sit opposite from me at the café, I see what's behind you and
you see what's behind me. Perhaps we should have been planning for this
spontaneous conversation.
The New England Thinkers
Don't rush my sitting under the finch book tree. It has been dark for ten days and like two eyes feed one
brain, we go driving. We are on an expedition to see the big numbers and wreckage of the floods.
We are in a clock shop.
