June 2023

Odeon

Olivia
Hussey’s
sugar
poisoned
hope

for
Zeffirelli’s
nimble
suicides
I woke

dark air
in Mother’s
tattered
studio

bathroom light
caress my
kindergarten
skin

the landlord’s
library

Juliet
rhetorical

are you… Read more

Watching

I keep watching YouTube videos
of the Russian war on Ukraine
of drones bombing soldiers
in their trenches, trucks, and tanks,
taking you to the moment of impact,
to the … Read more

Man Of The Moment

It’s truly the time of our lives,
the age of the besuited bureaucrat
the middle-class white male
middling this and middling that
geographically limited,
culturally limited,
intellectually bereft
darling of … Read more

Betelgeuse Is Dying

Betelgeuse, we are told, is dying –
on the verge of a supernova
dimmer, now brighter, shape-shifting
toward its own inevitable end.
Will it become another “guest” star
like those … Read more

Eratication

Rat crime is rampant in New York City,
and a crackdown has come that isn’t pretty.
Trash can no longer go out before eight,
but for many small businesses, that … Read more

Up Early

No sooner have the finches
arrived at the feeders
than morning news breaks out of
the television screen
and an accounting begins of the overnight
shootings from Mesa (three dead,… Read more

Goliath

(comes to ‘town hall’ New Hampshire)

Photo by Jeremy Nathan Marks

Tonight, we were struck
in the head and left for dead
the referee didn’t bother
to count because the … Read more