It’s all in the folding.
That’s the secret
to becoming a crane.
It’s all in the folding.
That’s the secret
to becoming a crane.
Can you believe it –
pulling the rabbit
out of the hat
at this late date?
It’s like he’s in a cave.
He can’t leave the cave.
But sometimes he can
come up far enough
to see the light.
And sometimes I can
go down to where
I’m still not afraid.
And we meet for a time.
caught in this net.
Not her flab
smacking the tile
but the constriction
of her heart
from the laughter
that followed
You can’t even count them.
Right after she fired me
for being the way I was.
Gets between
me and the page
and you and me,
his incisors
breaking the skin,
unfortunately,
and there’s a certain
sloshing
you don’t want to hear.
serve the one lonely brain,
but we two
were earbuds once,
with two cans and a string
pulled tight in between.
sounds like
a good crazy to be.
Even W.C.
rejoiced in its juice
in his plum crazy
poetry.