SEPTEMBER 2007  ·  WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

“this is not about the dead, / or the dull depths...”

PARACHUTE SPIDERS  ·  JUNE 2006

“It’s the bait of broken things — / burrowing into a...”

MAY 2006  ·  DELETED SCENES, WITH COMMENTARY

“These things / are always out of frame, the lightness / / of...”

STUPID BIRDS  ·  JANUARY 2006

“it’s a beautiful foolishness / / the crook of the wing / before...”

AUGUST 2005  ·  YOU DON’T GO BACK

“In time, the door seals shut of its own accord, /...”

OWNING IT  ·  MARCH 2005

“one day / one cool cloudless morning / after he has torn...”

JUNE 2004  ·  LOSING IT

“The things I lose find their way back / in forms...”

DOG ROSES  ·  MAY 2004

“This light will break you, these colours / pulled back by...”

MARCH 2004  ·  WORDS AS A BODY

“If I could, I would give my words / a form...”

DESERET  ·  DECEMBER 2003

“in his sleep starved sight / the lines of many maps...”

NOVEMBER 2003  ·  ENDINGS

“Endings are stumbles, static / and silence in all the wrong...”

PREMONITION OF DROWNING  ·  MAY 2002

“a certain hesitation / until the air leaves him — / / threads...”

NOVEMBER 2001  ·  PERFECT MERCIES

“For want of you, they keep after you — / / for...”

LIFE EXPECTANCY  ·  SEPTEMBER 2001

“I have rubbed the bone ash / back into a skeleton...”

DECEMBER 2000  ·  EATING THE DEAD

“Suicides are their own poems, / a slumber of broken lines / /...”

YOU GO WHERE THE WORDS...  ·  NOVEMBER 2000

“and if the words / are on a burning bridge / you...”

OCTOBER 2000  ·  RIOT HEROES

“It takes only this: / a loneliness so certain, so doubtless...”

ELVIS AND THE DIRTY DHARMA  ·  OCTOBER 2000

“...knowing that rock and roll can’t save him / but...”

MARCH 2000  ·  THE NEVER-ENDING SHOWER

“It starts in the stomach, / as if we could give...”

THE ANGEL OF MY NATURE  ·  JANUARY 2000

“I don’t want to say anything more about you / I...”

NOVEMBER 1999  ·  THE NEXT STAGE OF SLEEP

“I must believe there is a tremble / in the peace...”

THE WAY IT GOES  ·  MARCH 1999

“It lives to leave — / you know this when you...”

NOVEMBER 1998  ·  LAST DAY OF THE INQUISITION

“...without fear, / but there is calm here, or something...”

AMELIA EARHART COMPLEX  ·  JULY 1998

“if / all else fails / pull once / on the thread / tying...”

JULY 1998  ·  A THOUSAND WORDS

“Our paths crossed again today. You kept your distance; you...”

HALFWAY THERE  ·  FEBRUARY 1998

“Halfway there, the blue / burns away and the red breathes...”

AUGUST 1997  ·  THE OPENING AND CLOSING OF...

“...with his every breath, / setting the celestial spheres in...”

THE DROWNING DREAM  ·  JANUARY 1997

“My love, the sea / poured from your hands and sang...”