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Pencil crayon and crayon. From Plum Stuff.
Tag: plum stuff
February 23, 2011
THE SWISS THIN IMMIGRANT
shrinking in a wash of coffee
touched nothing but
the odd square caramel (and hairy
illustrated men)
Distressing, yes, yet we said
nothing, knowing it would only
snip the wrong wire
and blow us
to the tip of liberty’s pointy iron tiara
Her mother died
of the selfsame thin
in addition to cigarettes
Vexed at the end, an effect, said
the doc
of brain starvation
weighing no more than those
odd square caramels
we’d watched her pop
go boa-like down her throat
Tomorrow? Grocery shopping
(From Plum Stuff; first published in Quarterly West.)
January 13, 2011
WHEN I COULD WALK NO MORE, I
stopped
at last
spat
on dust
and rested
From long walking
I was light as
soul
or soul and old raiment
glowing
through holes
like a waking house
On broad stone
holding
stone
I hold there still
I hold here
thinner by the year, yet
would you guess
less delicate, better?
This, and this also
is so
I speak
as no poet, no
shambling man, la-
menting desert’s
dry
and eye-long sand
I speak as
I am
a worn traveler, only
glowing
worn
from going
This be-
lieve
I’ll rest
till well; and well step
on
There’s more to my song than this
From Mavor’s Bones, and unpublished Gothic novel-in-poems.
January 5, 2011
VERTIGO
I’ll be reading things from Plum Stuff on the 23rd, at the Orange Izzy. Make it.
October 25, 2010
“A cry of the author’s generation” – Transition’s Review of PLUM STUFF
(An extract from Carol Rempel and Laurie Rasmussen’s review, which first appeared in the Fall 2010 TRANSiTiON.)
October 22, 2010
Shakey
If Lived Today Shakespeare, He’d
too milky sea be
dubbed, ub-
scure
to swim
Poor William
I knew him
(c) 2010 Rolli
October 9, 2010
The Redoubtable Head of Actress Laura Dern
