Poems

Individual poems

The Useful Anger

The Useful Anger I’ve been working on the useful angle for a while now,The redirection of the heat and learning howTo point the energy at the work instead of the consume,The useful anger and the way it fills the room.The useful anger is the instrument I’ve been misusing,The useful anger is the force I’ve been […]

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The Truth That Anger Tells

Anger is a bad messenger with a good message sometimes Anger is a bad messenger running the right linesInto the room before the polite versionWould have gotten there, before the conversionOf the true thing into the acceptableBefore the filing down of the detectableEdge of the actual into the smoothBefore the thing was sanded into grooveThe

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The Stranger at the Funeral

The Stranger at the Funeral A man I didn’t recognize–the unplaceableand unaccounted fact of the strangerat the funeral, the vernacularof the unknown, the quiet dangerof the unplaced in the contextof the intimate, who is this manin my father’s circle, the complexmap of the life and the scanof the gathering for his locationin the uncharted map

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The Stranger You Know

The Stranger You Know She walked into the room like she already owned it,black dress, bare feet, eyes that said she’d been waiting,I’d seen her three times and we’d barely said a wordbut the way she looked at me was loud and unambiguous.Said you want to come over and I said yes beforethe sentence finished,

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