unnerved and undone by other people’s company

she did it to me again this morning Amy Gerstler shook my notion of how I was wrong in the world that was right. I am not eccentric or off-center put out by a world that is full of model citizens in my desire to stand at this age and wish I had somehow been able to do...

love as living things

things not yet seen things keeping company hour by hour lifting hands to paper to mug to shovel and brush and soaped up dishes I don’t know if it’s become dangerous this love of things unseen in the alone hours and days spent with these bits of my life....

may i please bow to you

you there raging you can’t frighten me I’ve been around too long I don’t care about scare tactics and tantrums I don’t even think though I’ve not stood at the end of one mind you I’m all that frightened of a gun or the bullet it...

the tyranny (II)

and so that word left then tyranny which I say I like much more than the  normal for what can be said that we can all agree on about that  normal/ but tyranny I think there is no disputing its heavy hand there can be no confrontation or long drawn out debate...

the tyranny(I)

of the word ‘normal’ Amy Gerstler teases at me from the lines of her poem this morning tyranny I think I like that word but  normal what is that exactly? My normal speaks to stories and places and populations and environments not yet being yet in my...