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Argument from Silence

      We have nothing in that fanciful or speculative relation The gap between our ears — the air that vibrates with these words Vocal cords to ear drums, the nerve bundles, signal-to-noise, our Ratio, the incentive to know one another’s minds Drop predictable experience here, abandon all hope Of anything but change O — O — the poetic O of apostrophe Thinking […]

BOMB IRAN

A poem from a set written not long after we moved to Shanghai and settled down in the French Concession near the old publisher’s row on Shaoxing Lu (once known as the Rue Victor-Emmanuel III). It was published at some point in Sal Mimeo. I tend not to think about old poems much, but the recent surge in American-Iranian […]

Notice Tone

Is off the chest box isgardendirt going construction ballsite cold side of Mercury whereall our ornery hormones rip generator airlight or where pure pneumatic hammers durian strapped to a moped form scramble runaround & Jump horny vac jump