Sunday, December 30, 2007

Hatway Hill

Everywhere I go there is

something to love, so

something to be sad at leaving.


The end of the future starts here.


Everywhere I leave there is

something to love.


Elsewhere – the idea of it

the ghost of it pulls

and this tugging hurts

half awake just at dawn. It is much later

where we have just been and what more

am I missing.


Everywhere I'm sad there is

something to leave.


The ache of it drags;

the weight of it settles.


Everywhere I love there is something

to be sad.


I had forgotten so much

but my hands know

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Crazy Wind And (I and II)


I.

crazy wind and

who comes through this

time?

darkness

sibilance

what rises to the top

of the totem pole

furtive

give us this omen

forgive us

this crazy wind

and I can't stop shaking underneath

II.

crazy wind and

when I hear 'things' I hear

music (it is not

an imagining)

thunder here

the tulips dance and I fall down

from winter to spring again

everything wake up is new

everything sleep is translated from darkness

rain or hail hits the metal roof – pling

crazy darkness and

when I 'hear things' I hear

music

everything crossed out

Police Blotter

(Thursday, August 17, 2006)

Cuts and scrapes, unoccupied. Back up, a roving perimeter. Transported on charges of being a bio-hazard. Approximately. A building. No one unoccupied, no one was present. No one, per se. She wanted information, a tightness in the chest. She wanted information, jumping onto the highway. She knew better than trespassing. She knew he was stolen. He admitted he had been running. Weaving. Unoccupied. He admitted he was stolen. She knew he was. Revealed.

(Thursday, August 24)

Witnesses say he was happy. He said he had just defrosted. The glass broke off-road. Through the frog pond, into a building, in the road: anyone with information didn't want to go. The other guy had fired him. Anyone with information continued with an ax handle. At the time, the window was happy. He sat up and told her he was a Neanderthal man.

(Thursday, August 31 )

After a lengthy investigation, the scene took off. The truck was stopped, the witness intervened. Open wine sacks, no domestic charges. When the party, when the couple, when the suspect, smoking a cigarette behind a nearby fence; when the suspect had been ordered to leave. An extremely intoxicated man would not let go of his bongo drum.A white man in a bathrobe standing on his deck refusing to leave.

(Thursday, September 7)

Failure, at this point it appears, missing a blue robe. Difficult terrain in the melee, identity to claim it. Evidence was collected, there were weapons drawn. Anyone missing could lead to notification. Anyone missing is still open.

(Thursday, September 14)

The suspect was sorry.

He had finished most of his plate before he was arrested.

(Thursday, September 21)

Comma. There is no foul play. Comma. He left a note. Comma. The biter was arrested. Comma. That's when the suspect was bitten. Three counts. Two counts. Harassment, comma, trespassing. That's when he asked if he could take pictures of her naked.

(Thursday, September 28)

A nonexistent crime scene, no information.

(Thursday, October 5)

It did not stop. It had been cancelled. Someone picked up the summons. It did not stop. Westbound, couldn't find a good way to do it. Police arrived unregistered. Police arrived transported. It did not stop.

(Thursday, October 26)

The car drove into the woods. The driver's mother, the van, the warrant, the double yellow line. The man did not have a driver's license. The driver ran into the creek.

(Thursday, November 2)

He had too much to drink, he said, he was going home. Slurred speech, unsteady. He wouldn't take any tests because his life would be ruined. Unsteady. He refused to do roadside maneuvers. His license was revoked. His life would be ruined. He was surprised.

He was revoked. His life was ruined.

(Thursday, November 9)

He found a blue glass marble on the sidewalk. Thud. He calls it expensive. Thud. A group of people came over to party and left. A white husky/wolf mix, an animal, a fist, belligerent. He then lunged forward and saw a pile of blankets that began to move. Thud. He saw her fall backward but didn't know why. There were two holes in the back window and there were two blue marbles in the bed.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Key


when he says introvert

he means she keeps her clothes on

when I say repetition

I mean reassurance

when he says almost

he means as you like it

when I say distance

I mean inevitable

when he says inevitable

he means arch-rival

when I say music

I mean delight

when he says introvert

he means she keeps her clothes on

when I say music

I mean exhaltation, delight


meaning seeps past me

each occurence

each article of faith

meaning distracts

remote attention


take your finger off the trigger

before you guess again


when he says faith

he means deliberation

when he says deliberation

I mean everyone else exaggerates

when I say music

he means everyone else exaggerates

when I say music

I mean this