Category Archives: Poetry

In Architecture: The arrangement of windows and doors in a building. In Medicine: A surgical procedure to correct certain causes of deafness. May Day, 2020

found lines from a time of great unrest, after Émile Coué In 1920, Coué released Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion in which he called the technique one with which “we play unconsciously all our life, as a baby plays with its … Continue reading →

He tries to stay light on his feet. His name is not Muhammed Ali. He does not float like a butterfly, he does not sting like a bee.

You stand and watch the patient rain.

i. Hey! Just calling to check in. I didn’t want to call too soon! I was hoping to catch you at home.

With the meats and the poultry all spoiling        for a terrible fight, nutrient extraction is the natural objective.        The produce, too, must be purified.

O merriest, wiliest, and holiest of harlots! ~ Edward IV The poet works the room the way she works words. Her students lead thesauresed lives, ape tropes poached from livid legends, derive new meanings from stale or stolen selves:

In computer science, conditional constructs are sometimes referred to as “If-Then-Else” statements: if a condition is met, then an action is performed; if the condition is not met, then an alternate action is executed. What if I were         to begin … Continue reading →