Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
April 23, 2012
Two brown horses in a field
Eating grass
2 rain poems, F.A.Q, some tentative answers
April 17, 2012
Rain 1
It rained.
I finally chopped the shrubs.
(The garden looks worse, the way it does
before it looks better.)
What can i tell you?
Everything is paler than it ought to be,
the roses are subdued
Rain 2
It falls away
You
Me
the laurel
through the glass
pushes the boundary fence
i could step into it
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it real
Do you love me
…
I can’t think of any others`
A.
like a backwards fern
or an ear
a pebble
of impossible age
the thing is-
i am not a mermaid
I am from Earth
Forests
Mulch
Decay
that kind of thing
the thing is-
everything is fine
there are wild geraniums growing under the bench in the garden
my dog sits on my shoulder like a parrot
wall
March 26, 2012
this separation
do i pick it up
like static
earache
heartache
someone else’s
sobbing
heard through the wall
there was no ne…
March 15, 2012
there was no need, even, to close the door
the house fell as she left
the wind
blew where it liked
foil stars blew off her dress
the real ones
suited better
there was a cra…
March 7, 2012
there was a crack
the side of the house slid off
the moon wasn’t at all surprised
only a little impatient
bottles
March 6, 2012
she smashed all the bottles
messages unsent
souvenirs
of coloured glass
the phial my heart was in
like a ship
i am all water
and flying glass
curl
March 6, 2012
when you are gone
i will curl
into the hollow
under the birch
lay
yellow leaves
in sentences
