A Brief For The Defense

Measuring things. Scale, and scope. The bronze fennel wafting up from the valley which is now just a memory of light, of sun splash. A night...

My brother’s plum tree. Borne fruit, deep purple globes. They taste good to us, my father and I. Cool inside, and supple. We roam through th...

You and me our customary cup of coffee. The sudden heavy summer downpour A drowning necessity before the long droughts.

In the Gothic antechamber where the poet prattles on keys, a maundering bird has wandered, lost his pother, lost his flock. Perhaps his worl...

In China workers commit suicide. Wages rise, grudgingly. In America, we spend billions advertising soccer cleats, watch as unions vanish lik...

Baseball on the radio Pastimes on the radio Dusk whittling away the day. A carpenter, chisel in hand. Fading daytime the crucifix. Pleasant...

Exiguous - limited, scarce Exegeses Mellifluous Coruscate - glitter; to give of flashes of brilliant light Coruscant Vivify - give life to s...

lyricism, Neruda insists. naught more than beauty of language, its innate, abstruse music. Aesthetic pleasures of this life. simplicity, W...

The look they share is the thing of poems. Casual and deeply mysterious. So light as to barely register, a forgotten greeting between strang...

Ah, to be a painter with his mimetic limbs. A painter extrapolates the frame. Or a jazz musician with his improvisation. Gone beyond rhythm....