He spoke with a solemn resonant voice saying in this time of the long dark descend   down down into darkness   unseeing unknowing   stay in the dark unmoving still [...]

When you get seriously old your dreams vacate nowhere If you're lucky just as daybreak pink seeps between a needles' eye a yellow jack knife   suspended there   simulacrum of [...]

No   I refuse   I will not cease to be me this name   this birthdate   these secret codes are mine   No to the sneak-thief hiding backstage   too human to name [...]

No   I was wrong   There is a beginning and there is an end Eternal time is now and never   Ask your (dead) parents Your carry-all is gone   Your [...]

A handmade ceramic fountain planted with desert flora each in its tiny eloquent identity   succulent greens blush oranges   hints of orpiment yellow at its height a multi-fingered upthrust glorying in [...]

  Nothing could be discerned in its porous density   Stooping over I tried to print something important   A black glove gripped my wrist I screamed   Don't scream   [...]

   Suppose at that instant afterward the strong nuclear and the weak – prone to entropy – combined with electromagnetic force as physicists propose             [...]

              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