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The Lepidopterist

In Poems on January 5, 2012 at 5:43 pm

In a violent country across the Western Ocean
lives and breeds a type of moth which feeds
on the tears of large mammals. Read the rest of this entry »

Poetry Terrorist Alliance (PTA) Video

In Poems on December 20, 2011 at 7:57 am

my naked body on a massage table video camera in right hand
panning across hair folicle eyebrows curved belly dark pubic wilderness Read the rest of this entry »

Shanghai

In Poems on October 19, 2011 at 1:28 am

In the year of the Snake,
on a moist Mong Kok morning,
I nosed through a black-lacquered cabinet, Grandma,
and found it full of you:

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With Brown Sugar and Amaretti Cookie

In Poems on October 12, 2011 at 12:49 am

Geraldine Illingworth saw
the Buitoni Oven Roasted
Butternut Squash Ravioli
with brown butter sage
sauce and said: Read the rest of this entry »

The Distance Between These Things

In Poems on October 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm

Imagine me as a child
with a measuring tape
borrowed from my mother’s sewing basket

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Exegesis

In Poems on October 6, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Sometimes
when I say “you” I mean “me.”

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Mg – Magnesium 12

In Poems on October 5, 2011 at 1:47 pm

I don’t recall what was blaring from my brother’s stereo when I walked in on him, sitting on the side of his bed, naked to the knees, touching himself. Aerosmith? Read the rest of this entry »

9 Reasons Love is Existential

In Poems on September 18, 2011 at 4:17 pm

1. All men are candles. Their flames are their dreams. The sound of a lit matchstick dipped in water? That’s Love. Read the rest of this entry »

the rebirth of smoke

In Poems on September 9, 2011 at 1:28 pm

there is no reason to panic until the dogs begin to lie on each other’s bellies & make love like humans. Read the rest of this entry »

Email from Coleridge in Beijing

In Poems on August 31, 2011 at 2:33 am

Recovering from a plate of fried Prawns, the Author drifted into a hallucinatory Haze. He recalls being suddenly reinvigorated and having an intense Vision of responsible City Planning, and rushing to the nearest Internet Café to write it down Read the rest of this entry »

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