He  knew his star rose before his birth                                                 Galib                                                 As if – near the end of my days – I stepped [...]

  It has become familiar You feel it through the mattress – a tremor   and the way it lurches toward you in a fall   Do you fear the [...]

  Upward from the damp spore-aired forest floor   an ibis-white light burst between the thighs of tree   on its blue dot in the cosmic rainbow    

  Even the east wind cannot bear it any longer; it turns into a secret light...   The Terrace of Yen Li Shang-yin     Dawn   already sad I cast [...]

You don't talk to the dead you talk at them setting the story aright   a canoe overturned in rapids belongings sodden tied down by intention   to survive words [...]

                                    To an old man what is more natural                                     than to die?                                                                         Cicero     Individuals die   species die the fleeting made eternal through incessant change yet how [...]

What havoc! even the winds and seas are in revolt in this best of all possible worlds   where peace is only possible in intimacy cultivate your own garden   [...]

She asks what is sacred answers herself   a mint stem's naked rootlets in a waterglass a second hand clicking   blackwings plunging through an ocean of air   a [...]

It was Rabbit you blamed for eating the primrose In reality it was Squirrel munching and digging with his sharp rodent claws excavator   acrobat evoking laughter his sandy-tan belly hugging [...]