Coming Soon . . . Trinity & Its Twin: A Provocative New Volume of Poetry
Coming very soon in paperback–A subversive narrative . . . Whether one regards it as a sequence of forty-two narrative poems or the somewhat broken body of a metaphysical epic, there will be no disagreement that Trinity & Its Twin is a provocative work. Ostensibly the fragmented tale of a homeless refugee and a runaway teenager who join a separatist religious sect, the story interweaves sociopolitical statements and philosophical ideas. Beliefs are questioned. Psychological depths, explored. Taboos, broken. Though some may find themselves lost in a dense garden of hellish delights, others may see a darkly beautiful allegory Read more…
Monday Poem: Failing, in the Silliest Business
“How do you know you’re really a man? I mean, really know?” Genes, and jeans, and Jeanne all say one thing; but here is Kelly, questioning the plays I’ve made with my body on hers. Or is she merely being cheerfully metaphysical, trying to burst the typical mental picture of cloudy-blue-eyed, blonde-tressy secretaries? After a fifteen-minute flight, lying ragged like a kite hit by lighting, I was fizzed shy, sneezing, frisked by “Anyways . . .”—the ambiguous ending to a small dusty fling, one that started in the office when I openly admitted I was scared of kites, Read more…
Monday Poem: Love, Uninvolved (in its own horror)
What if, when you die, you get stuck in one of your old dreams? Like the knotty one where you keep telling me, “There’s so much I’m not telling you”? I’m thinking of us at City Hall, combined, dancing— With four sinister feet . . . The best citizens lined up in a parade to gawk, and grin, and hear me serenade you. Hear me say a prayer: God, excuse their grins. Me, in black; you, in off-white. We don’t want to show off anything too bright. Anything enters Everything, spits out Nothing Read more…
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