the grass outside the federal detention center dry and sharp and hollow as a hypodermic needle doctors in lab coats cloud-bright under overcast skies carrying placards two uniforms on the roof watchful, but less like eyes than the windows below narrow opaque the wall’s blank face and those behind it– On the metro, each stop, more, compressing into the car held soley in place by curved backs and bellies and angular shoulders one large body […]
Test out the rhetoric: Animal. Vermin. Infest. Inundation or inflammation, fiery little tongues that lick up kindling? The intent is visceral, in secare antennae, thorax, not of us, Kafka-esque, one day man and one day less than, mere question of taxonomy, Insecta, Pterygota, Isoptera, Blattodea, Class, Subclass, Suborder, Subhuman, Superior Orders (didn’t fly at Nuremberg). Consider the words like Solenopsii, fire ants, no, too late, like their bite: The damage is the warning.
See the dust encrusted with dry rock and you don’t think flood zone, water scouring sage brush instead of brittle wind, but it’s happened. Block ice slouches in the glass, dessert heat demostrates the facility of state change. See a lazy wheeling hawk, think gyre, gyre, getting wider– do things really fall apart? Or just slump forward in apathy? Define a hole: a lack of matter– evil is nothing but the absence of empathy. Say […]
OPTIONAL POETRY 