I will be the ghost who dreams of you
until our eyes collide.
there is no map in my flesh, no doorways or windows.
January 26
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Blackout
New York Movie, 1939, by Edward Hopper 10 p.m. A keen torch beam leads me up the steps, left hand on the brass rail as I recall the uniformed usherettes of long ago guiding…
Mao Please
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The Seed Sown upon the Ocean of Storms
Scientists initially concluded that, during the prepping of Surveyor 3 for launch, a coughing engineer contaminated the camera by accident (implying that the germ had hitched a ride to the Moon, surviving, without nutrients for 31 months, in the frozen vacuum of the lunar waste).
Cicada Song
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Inflorescence
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my fathers tell me of water
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Our Closing Narrative
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The ‘Riff
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A Heron Swallows a Fish, & the Fish Thrashes in Its Throat
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Demolition Man v. the No Freedoms Act
Lockdown makes me crazy for action
films—all that sweat and beef and stupid risk.
I love an action-Arnie or -Stallone, the close-up
of an arm, offered to a dangling damsel,
who must think, there’s just no way
I can get a grip on that hunk of quivering
muscle. I am especially fond of plots
that don’t make sense or stretch us
