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Natureexpand_moreIn that instant, Niel lost one of the most beautiful things in his life.
He was staring at his car like you might a stare at a dog.
Some women have all the tit out hip out flat of the hand & tone of voice.
I walk and I rest while the eyes of my dead look through my own.
I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.
In time the squirrel who was my friend is my friend no longer.
We went flying without a map as naked astronauts often do.
In that great darkness could I explain anything, anything at all.
My own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
However hard I trudge and search I cannot find the hills I have climbed.
In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.
I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.
The flail is raised high, back bent in echo of the boys’ backs.
When I saw her, I was witness and weapon both, charging at her.
The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.
Draw me a map of your agonies, all the missing rivers you dried.
When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.
It was cool and dark, azalea in bloom at the edge of the forest.
They dust off facts like diamonds that excel in perfection under a monocle.
The field wants to stretch the hours, wants to be empty for us.
Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?
“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.
Delighted to be there, celestial together, as high as you get.
Every voice an epitaph, and then a little tune from the neighbor’s yard.
The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.
I wanted to ask what her secret was but I was too busy knitting socks.
He probably should have arrested or at least reported me to someone.
I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention.
Sitting beside a heap of steaming dung I felt in great poetic form.
Pinned to the wall, it looks uncannily its own language, trick of the camera.
