(Erasures, each dedicated to its origin. Title - Tsvetaeva)
Know
twenty years
Like
bricks in the sidewalk
Or like
a cell
like a millimeter of palm
Without
honor and delight and
the road now bitter without
each blond hair of your head
for twenty years
(Olds)
Our boyfriends
would say
still looking
to impress
blood pressure
her wish,
undressed in each other’s roar
(Hempel)
two nights
right through Monday
through our bodies dream the morning
missing
between black
(Hacker)
What did one stop ignoring
the key
Not the instant that I wished
dignity
(Salinger)
Sneezed
but still forgot
not brick, better
big quail
petticoat bachelor
market fish
Jewish yellow coat thing
say
saw
our windmill!
I live
(Gogol)
A gondola
(but just one)
Wet disheveled river fool
phone mode vs. computer mode
dig your way through the
observe
to understand the
observe
the privilege to dance
on fire in side
mountainfolk Kimono
passed
they gave away my shower curtain
(self)
April American
civilians and sisters
Hatch and load bound for
the last of the flooding mile
Burning
Hell was better on water
Hell was better cold
(Farrar)
March, 2014