How Pedestrian

The Darker Sooner   Then came the darker sooner, came the later lower. We were no longer a sweeter-here happily-ever-after. We were after ever. We were farther and further. More was the word we used … more

The Roll Call   Any half-decent rapper Can conjure the dead,   Can reach into graves And accuse God   Of Indian-giving. The trick is ancestral,   No more magic than memory’s Hidden strings & … more

Last Dawn   Your hair is lost in the forest, your feet touching mine. Asleep you are bigger than the night, but your dream fits within this room. How much we are who are so … more

The bird’s-eye view   The bird’s-eye view abstracted from the bird. Cover me, says the soldier on the screen, I’m going in. We have the sense of being convinced, but of what? And by whom? … more