Putah Creek

I WOKE UP IN AMERICA AGAIN.

exhaled-spirals: « Dawn comes later and later now, and I, who only a month ago could sit with...

I DECIDED THAT I DO NOT RESPECT TEXT MESSAGES.

I THINK I WILL SET AN EXTRA PLACE AT THE TABLE FOR IMAGINARY VISITORS.

BEING BORN IS BUSY WORK INDEED.

Protester sings Rammstein’s DU HAST for 4 straight hours at the National Guard.

THE SECRET PSALMS OF JOBE

A DREAM, A PRAYER; THE SPACE BETWEEN THESE THINGS.

WHILE THE REST OF YOU WERE LEARNING TO LIVE NORMAL LIVES.

THEN WHAT? 

SUNSHINE AND EIGHTY DEGREES TODAY.

LOYALTY

My body, like my plans, are worn down, and are now as rounded as an old mountain top. I still have…

SILVER 

freedom

GABRIEL’S HORN

DREAMS CAN ONLY TAKE YOU SO FAR.

DEAR READER, 

Dog secrets. Earth secrets.

PRAY FOR US SINNERS, NOW, AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH. 

THE CELL I keep all of my poems locked in a room inside of my head; prisoners in a crowded cell….

‘just try to love someone’

I AM DREAMING THAT I AM A CARTOON MAN IN OUTER SPACE, and you are a comet that is kissed by the star…

LET THERE BE A RIVER

I slept well and was up at dawn, rested. I opened the curtains and looked out, waiting for a prayer…

GARDENING Look at you, White-haired and sweet In the garden, Pulling out weeds. Forty years? That…

THE WINTER POOLS The last pools of winter are splashing against the door. They gather like the…

MY FATHER’S COFFEE

HOPES AND TRUTHS I want the army to lay down the rifles and missiles and then dance to mad Cuban…

DREAMS BUZZ AROUND MY MIND LIKE BEES AROUND THEIR HIVE.

“the world required nothing in return”

You’re asking who knows the truth. 

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this…

Once, the instructions for living were much simpler.

“When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s…