X.
You are not an unknown number But I cannot say you are this or that Either. I begin. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I...
Bad Ritual
When I was a six-year-old child, I took piano classes In a poor mountain village in the South of France. My mother was a secretary In a...
Sleep Walking
I. I recall.. I was walking in the streets of the South East But walking as though beneath layers of water, Struggling and slow, but...
The Safe
There was a girl, once, Who could not accept that any of the doors in her house Be left open. She felt that if the doors were open People...
Good People
I want their faces. Layered years of fresh bark As skin. Rays through the head of a tree, As teeth. Stretched-out roads, like linen...
Gauche
The skirt was stuck up in my under-pants. It was not placed right on my legs. If I had stepped out of myself, It would have been...
Awe
I prey on her skin, As she prays to her Lord. Her head low, near the stoup, Lifts, After the water, Holy, Hits her front. And I also like...
Across a Canvas
I creep, Then wait Upon the bed, as bait, And keep hands about the knee Like a person in a painting Positioned, A statue, Too patient And...
When Minds Meet
He sat in the Church, Beside me, but still, So separate. We were both on the floor, As pews were too few. We looked at each other twice,...
The Red Party
We are two on a couch, in a full house. The wallpaper is red and velvet. There are slurs of red light Shaking out of a projector. People...