Knowing

You are like satin, spilling
over every edge, wanton
consequential though seeming transient
a bond hewn of azure
indigo, and salt …

Crossing a Distance

justice is a caravan
of individuals
their dreams shifting
between confluence & conflict …

Everything Shifted

& you were with me
strong evanescent
looming up from dreamplay
with solid destination
nesting sable in your gaze…

Your Voice Alone

your voice
alone
in the humid sphere
of competing
midnights
ancient unswerving …

El abandono

contaminado el charco
donde hallamos y ubicamos
lo más sagrado de lo sagrado
contaminado de intenciones
de químicas y rumores
de caballeresco follaje
y la duda del más allá …

‘Poesía en español: In their Own Words’, Villanova University [video]

Vídeo completo de la presentación de cuatro poetas, incluido yo, ya disponible a través de iTunes U. El vídeo dura 80 minutos y se descarga a la librería iTunes, después de que se haya seleccionado “Get Episode” de la lista de items disponsibles en iTunes U.

The Presumed World

these days everything bends toward conspiracy
—the wealth of nations the family bound
by democratic ideals as applied the outliers
united in opposition to time’s flow
the problems the solutions the stories
that recount what is or is not yet known—
all at once both natural & unnatural
—we are each of us a conspiracy of tendencies
the adopted pragmatic mischief of semi-
conscious [...]

Holy Vessels & an Invitation

if your road is wine-dark & you drink
& your blood is sunlight & swimming
if the little freedoms that form you
taste like clean winter air
if the whole of time finds itself & disappears
in the geometry of your breath
if you are prone to becoming
those things you always doubted
if genuflection is an artform
& you place all questions inside [...]

Retrato en artemisa y burdeos

tus pies tu larga historia
imposible de no sentir

Like Egypt & Strawberries

Landscape of desire
timing and fluctuation
all the improbable flurried tasking
we undertake thinking
that nothing else can be
or can be justified
or can be ours
to own and savor …

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