18 August 2008

15 August 2008

crazy ass horoscope

Small financial problems will disturb you and compel you to postpone your wild desires for spendings. Your religious and philosophical convictions will suddenly be strongly shaken; doubt will settle down in your mind; you'll be seized by a kind of metaphysical anguish which may last for some time. Perturbations in your affective life. You'll feel an almost pathological fear of losing the object of your love; this fear will give rise to crises of jealousy which will irritate your mate very much.

13 August 2008

Mingamus Prime

from the estimable mr. hersey.



green ghosts

the green ghosts
that your eyes made
are haunting the treeline
of the pacific northwest.

their old bones in the branches,
blood red on the roots.
i climb the keyedge
of the cascades

on my way up
and out
and over
puget sound, staring down

mt. rainier: "can we finally hide right
and get this world away from us?"

i floor the gas pedals
of the lumber trucks,
speeding to turn
all of these evergreens

into clean sheets of paper,
finally writing this down:
i'll take my love to the grave.
i'll take my love to the grave.

poem fragment

i snake these same miles
up and down this east coast
roam between homes
where the heart goes

poem fragment

the pale green shoot
tastes like school used to.