The Crow & Key

Above all, it's about finding the right way in life / a way of living / the right speed limit / Not to be biggest, best, most beautiful / but just suitably puffed up / like the balloon with a timer / a slow detonation / a way to die / A play of shadows

grief she must leave him there helpless on his bed of leaves

I remember my mother blindfolding me a lot. She had a way of tucking my head suddenly under her overcoat.

From now on all metaphors that come to mind are possible. Especially the feminine ones: el-Siq / el-Shaq the womb

I write you-- You have come into the world again with the haunting strength of letters that groped for your essence

The lackadaisical poet. Pray tell. Would it be a French dip or a French high coup? Diving naked off the Eiffel Tower.

Now the world begins-- peonies in the garden, the dog to his dish, a burning car blocking traffic on I-435 in the eastbound lane--

When I pray now, it's with puzzles of contingencies and a net / of addenda. I finish in a corner, my heart bound and struggling, / begging, "If it is your will, Lord, then what's the problem?" And / when I don't pray, I whine, "Why should I send a letter to my / friend who won't answer?"

It is said that the earthly object / founded by the event of an absolute word / moves vertebrally sliding endlessly / flowing in quantities of shadow toward the light

And water is as empty as sky, only / Easier to fall into, / Heavier to breathe.

This green lamp, of a standard make / Pours sunlight in a white lake / Over an empty page.

The icon listens, pensive and sad, / knowing he won't return, the absent lad.

Dormant desire Speaking in lust's Eternal dialect Now half-forgotten.

True, it's strange not to live on the earth anymore, not to continue customs you were just getting used to, not to interpret roses and other such promising things as omens of future happiness, not to be what you were, cared for by infinitely anxious hands, and to put even your name aside, like some broken toy. Strange, not to wish wishes any more.