AMEN
October 26, 2018“Dear Heavenly Father,” I began, “please help me do well on this test.” I was on my way to the Garfield Community Center in the Central District to take a skills test for a City…
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La’ie Mud Rhymes
October 26, 2018I write for my friend Michael,
who alone on our island
had grace I could dive into.
Boyhood buddy of beach-night bonfires,
Choose Your Own Belief: Of Sharks, Art, & God
October 26, 2018Since hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul,
Then, belief is the feather vane
holding it together.
Forgotten Birds
October 26, 2018The black-cassocked crow
broods in the eucalyptus
where blood-red umbellates
breathe out the odor of camphor.
As the graves grow green
and spring missiles its
multitudinous wings,
Domestiku
October 26, 2018the blade that scrapes one face
tomorrow scrapes another’s legs
smooth for each other
The Goodness of Created Things
October 26, 2018Amber, formerly pine sap where ant wings settled, feathers, the occasional
tiny frog. A drop of the Jurassic Age I wear around my neck.
A Chop Wizard with its plastic cup, blades, hand crank tearing into the
onion like a cheetah, membrane and flesh.
If Joseph Smith Had Been Born in California
October 26, 2018The angel met him once every four years
in what is now the Ina Coolbrith Park.
The first time digging them up took longer
than the angel had anticipated.
As If Nothing Matters
October 26, 2018When I looked at the body
I thought only in clichés,
those that I had yet to experience
for thirty years.
Reverse Perspective
October 26, 2018May 14, 2017 I dreamt of Pavel Florensky, black-bearded, white-robed, scrunched and sharpened face, quizzical eyes, stepping into a dark classroom, eerie light in a still shaft from the rain-battered skylight above, unblinking student cadets…
Faith
October 26, 2018I once thought Faith the expense to secure
A pass aboard the Boat That Cannot Sink,
Destined for the Island Of The Sure:
A place of facts, concordance, sutured chinks.