POETRY, FICTION, ESSAYS
POETRY, FICTION, ESSAYS
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a standardized trial measuring knowledge and skills such as comprehension, vocabulary, word analysis, spelling, mechanics, usage, computation, geometry, physics, social deconstruction, and the Mayan calendar—only to discover the answer is B) Rod McKuen and Mary Oliver.
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Motor skills became increasingly sluggish as we switched between earth-bound interpretations of words like “nine,” and the uncut concept.
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Confronted with a robin carrying a coil of rubber, the pedestrian observer might muddle the image with the Big Idea of a Worm
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scores are not used to answer the question "Is it a fulfilling relationship?" but "Is it more fulfilling than Couple X’s relationship?"
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Stare in horror at the mechanized social order swallowing friends: the “system of conclusion," the feared Order of Established Things
Nocturne
The childhood mobile home / on blocks, aluminum box sprigged / with hemlock and spruce deadfall, / a jiffy-rigged antenna grinding round // its axis, the man hunched inside / strobed in hushed reds and lingering blues, / praising the Lord as the snow clears / and credits scroll to an end.
Homesickness
Belying the brick intercourse / of dock and cafe, architects / are binary in cyberspace -- // invisible -- but for some mundane / purpose such as hailing a waitress, / when they materialize in suits, // wiping their glasses while the window- / washer winks and dreams of roses / Oregonian in Maine.