As/Is







12.17.2024


Apparition Poem #516


 

#516

This lowly wise slug, stuck
to woody surfaces, rocky
bottoms, is yours: vacuum-
space, death to suck. But
lucky dips come in with such
brave vehemence (yellow
light, stop, before red) that
as we park near the woods
I hear an axe chop off your
reticence. This, however dense,
is how a man begets expanse—
what’s Eve, what’s ribbed, what’s chance—








12.10.2024


Fellating the Pickle


Fellating the Pickle, a standout piece from The Great Recession, on a 2012 On Barcelona page, with some other stuff.