The Tiger

Remember the warm bib smeared down the tiger’s chin too beautiful to be violence. Gone are these days.



From the Archives: Texas

Neither of us were drunk. It was just dark outside, the streets narrow, and we were turning a bend, and then the quiet thump beneath us, like a balloon deflating.


Sunrise

We, who come upon grief / like the hooves of a beast / cresting a hill




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Three trophy designs. The trophy on the left includes cymbals and a horn; the center trophy has a lyre and two horns; the trophy on the right, a xylophone and a horn. The plate is signed, but the numbering has been trimmed.

“Leyla” and other poems

"Maybe we should never have left the forbidden paradise
the winged key fled taking flame"


Original art by Daniel Giachetti

How Things Go

And like everyone else, I'll want to start a band


Cover of BEHIND THE GATE, which is a bright purple background with a bright pink skeleton hand reaching up with a black crow on the pointer finger bone.

The Mirror

We sat a while in silence like two strangers, facing each other. I didn’t ask her what had happened or what she had seen, or believed she had seen, in the mirror.


Where?

Did she tell me before we were born, we were waiting in the dark? Like leaves hanging on a black tree?


Image shows a close up of a baroque ceiling fresco, depicting figures of all different kinds in clouds with angels, dramatically posed and dynamic, positioned closely to one another. The background is pale blue, and gold molding with marble statues can be seen around the bottom of the image. The colors of the figures in movement are warm in contrast with the white and grey clouds.

Study a Cause

Its seclusion, its great swaths of stillness. Wakefulness in amber.