Monthly Archives: December 2024

The Holidays as 1001 Nights

The holidays are so full and strange, how do you put your finger on them?  (They’re like angels, amorphous, without gender, age, bodily materiality.)   Not knowing how to celebrate – what do Santa Claus and Jesus have to do with each other? – … Continue reading

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Bright Rim of Ear Lyric

Asterisks and diamond dropsand the cold, so cold,Lording-over-us blue  and the rose chill – sky’s bright rim of ear, so cold, asking to be nibbled this renegade that escaped,a maraschino cherrya cocktail on ice so raw and belovedthe song’s song be-longing in … Continue reading

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Broadcast Moon

The misted moon as variety of black and white TV—backdrop, desk and headshotof nightly news in the 60s –  stern, nervy, full of filament unfed, unfulfilled  it speaks, never clearly, across light years inkling of a vaster meaningthan petty characters preening … Continue reading

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The Art (a)Part

So many forebodings in the dark, so much dark.  The dark of the cinema spared by fire and bombs of a World War – my mom, that little redhead,  her Jersey drugstore, Fords, Astaire?  Now I understand the world so various – … Continue reading

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A Brief Encounter

Stark, a shock, magenta tree intensity matched, Briefly, against a sky darkening periwinkleSwirled with black, call it dream this carriageOf color held in its passage, these leaves red When day-dressed, now in evening glamour, Black-rose, killer berry, two energiesPaired married two shades … Continue reading

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