POETRY
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World
hurricanes of stars spinning at 10,000 miles an hour hang on the high wire above the lilies of the valley a hawkmoth is swallowed by the queen of the night and dandelions grasp cottontails in a valley as wide as Mars out of a grasshopper springs an oak tree with a chimney on fire the wind of evolution is in the shale and shining oceans where purple sea anemones are held by horses where starfish gaze upon the moon and the Great Barrier Reef ignores the sunset there is my arm sweeping with the solar wind there is my hair a shooting star my aorta is Iguassu Falls my vein is the Amazon there is my leg jumping over India there is my foot manacled to a wreck at the dump |
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From Australia
I want to kiss the soft silk of your neck And hear you laugh as My nonsense words worm Around branches of Morton Bay figs Through palms and pawpaw trees And weeds where geckos hide Dew fall on long green banners Of overgrown kikuyu grass I want to kiss the warmth of your soft neck See your eyes spark as you speak Your words worrying upwards lifting Feather leaves of leopard trees and Scarlet-flowered poincianas Here this lullaby morning I yet burn to kiss you on the neck My hand on your breast Our legs entwined Against terrible distance The hopeless miles |
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Bumble bee on Rothrock’s knapweed
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Earth. In: Poetalk, Fall 2002 p2, Berkeley, California
Biologist Grieving In: Antipodes, December 2002 Vol.16, no 2 p 163, Vassar NY Desert Rain In: Poetalk, Summer 2003 p103, Berkeley, California Through the Glass at Patancheru In: Poetalk, Spring 2003 p17 Berkeley, California Desert Rain In: Curbside Review (Jan 2004) Separation In: Ginosko no.6 (2007) Waking. In: Dream International Quarterly, Champaign, Illinois Orange Grove Road. In: Potpourri, Prairie Village, Kansas Kumquat. In: Bogg, Arlington, Virginia Separation. In: Ginosko summer 2008 Chemotherapy Room. In: Chest summer 2010 Grasshopper Trilogy. In: Animal Literary Magazine 2019 |
