The truth of numbers he said is that they can always be replaced don’t tie yourself to the mast of arithmetic don’t pick your way through the boulders and bones of mathematics don’t slide and tumble head over heels down the gravitational slope of calculus it’s all a dream * * * * * * * Imagine he said the… Read more →
There is a television in front of the fireplace and I am back, living with my parents. I was never good at compartmentalising. When it comes down to fight – march down to the airport and get them to prepare me a private jet plane flight – I sit on the couch writing poetry & ignore whatever is left of… Read more →
The first time I saw Hilda, I was standing in my neighbor Nicole’s lawn discussing the neighborhood preschools while our daughters, Sabine and Amberley, squatted on the sidewalk. Nicole was weighing the merits of Reggio Emilia versus Montessori when Hilda came outside and stretched as if she had just woken from a deep sleep. Even though it was midday, our… Read more →
It was a surprise when Jim announced that an old pal called Bob would be visiting. He had spoken of friends from his past, but never had he mentioned this one. “Bob, Robert? Roberto?” “Bob.” “Fair enough,” Paula said. “What is he like? Would you say he’s kind? funny? Peachy? Merry? Depraved? Perverted?” Jim wouldn’t describe people. “Bob,” he said,… Read more →
We swim through the living room toward the television while our mother watches reruns of Friends. She yells, “For shit’s sake, stop that, go outside!” But we don’t go outside. It’s the middle of the day, it’s 103 under the pines, and we’ve outgrown—by years—the small plastic pool Mom bought us with her egg money. Egg money buys everything we… Read more →
buy me a last drink something cold & neat take me through the lobby with the knowing lamps just lit pry me loose a stuck penny I’ll wipe my boots on your nagging doubt & later when you lace your shoes overtip the maid vanish like fog my fingers will invent you on hotel stationary crisp lined paper shoulders eyes… Read more →