tooth soup

Slate, a lovely site full of interviews, reviews, media commentary, and delicious baked goods, have published a fine article on the more common questions regarding poetry. I only link it here…

I’m now almost a month into my poetry odyssey, so I thought it was time I updated exactly how I’m feeling about it all. I’m finding that I enjoy reading poetry done by others a lot more than I do…

The microwave reads twelve thirty,
in one minute it will read twelve thirty
plus one more,
unmindful, it will flicker
again, passing through uncertainty to
register twelve thirty-two,
by which time my plastic halo

When I was born she wailed
unceasingly in the cot beside me,
wet and indignant from her clumsy birth
through public schools, and
leather couches around the globe,
her rubber-band mouth sucked meal from the…

on the corner resides Rose;
tongue severs
passing thorns, inside
she fingers petals,
recalls stuttered springs,
a daring breath beneath
threadbare sheets.