This Blue Monk

From the cell: words, pictures, cup of the day.  Latest book: Based on Imaginary Events. Also the author of Briefs, Release, Is it I, Rabbi?, In Domestic News, the Recital Notes series, and Music for Arguments.

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In the Backyard with Oliver

There is at least one chicken in the yard next door making his presence known with loud squawks, the others murmuring low.

New post.

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I hope your Friday goes peacefully and lovingly.

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"by the creek, after rain"

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reflection in which i don't see me

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"but ballrooms go on"

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seems like he’s trying to beat the light this crow struggling to lift black weight against the heat of these cars at intersections

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"in there: on a sunny, sad day"

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"water joy"

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Still learning how to use the new camera.

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lost in berryman’s sonnets (and who wouldn’t be, impenetrable and marvelous light, like you, whom i think about even & always when you’ve been gone from my unlife thus many years) wondering my nonlove now wandering

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lost in berryman’s sonnets (and who wouldn’t be, impenetrable and marvelous light, like you, whom i think about even & always when you’ve been gone from my unlife thus many years) wondering my nonlove now wandering

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one hand across another my fingers thin ice cubes against my wrist and now i am awake again blood betraying me racing; this cold bed a crypt beside you

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i have been pruned to make me fruitful but for now, my arms feel bare, naked, exposed near dead; sun is coming? rain has arrived; i hear it outside; for now, i wait in the pot where it began

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brown moving on brown along the long felled tree lizard runs from me

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these days are unsettled into night and you are still more you than ever: distant and unknowing of me beautiful but that’s in pictures sleep disturbs me; i won’t tell you about it: what, are you listening?

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“geometrics on brown”

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“did we dance or just electrocute ourselves”