Wife’s Disaster Manual (Poetry Rec): Recovering Lot’s Wife from the Wreckage of Sodom

October 23, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

When the forsaken city starts to burn,
after the men and children have fled,
stand still, silent as prey, and slowly turn

The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks

September 29, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

O sun,
centre of our foolish dance,
burning heart of stone,
molten mother of us all,
hear me and have pity.

September 28, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Animal femurs
ascribed to saints

September 26, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

when I lift my arms to reach a vase,
she extends both ligaments up to yawn
in the sterile light of our father’s home.

September 25, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green.
My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple
Fire red and humming.

August 14, 2019.Reading time 17 minutes.

“my child asked me if I knew who I was. And I said, yes, I am the speed at which particles collide.”
All of a Sudden

July 23, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

In this darkness it didn’t matter who they were, or where they stood. Only that they were human.

July 21, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I met a traveller from an antique land

July 18, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The garden is very still, /It is dazed with moonlight, /Contented with perfume, /Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies.

July 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Tell me, was Venus more beautiful than you are?