PoEMS

Library Monkey on a stack of photography books. shot on a Mamiya RB67

Selected Poems

  • After Mowing [text / video] - gnat wings and green grass / speckle…

  • August Light [text] - I live lifetimes forgotten / please forgive me / as I feel my way…

  • Evolution [infinitely generative poem via Javascript and a browser, text] - my mother / kept her foot / on my tail…

  • How Many Stops? [text] - “Do you ever wonder / about past lives,” she asked / to no one in particular…

  • It begins like this with the light [text] -We lie in the darkness dormant. / After what seems a lifetime…

  • It Happens All the Time [prose poem - text / audio / music] - Once there was a group of people living in a place called America. These people were new to America and had the same blood as people who lived…

  • It’s Under the Leaves [text / audio / music] - The lights are on but she's not around / there's mud on the stairs and the shovel is gone / footprints at the window lead back to the woods / a cigarette smolders near a pile of dead leaves…

  • State of Being [prose poem - text / audio] - He sits on the waterlogged bench because he can. It's raining out but he has decided to sit on the bench because he can. It's close to midnight and he is sitting…

  • Strawberry moon yielding constellations on a Saturday night [prose poem - text] - I don't know if it was the impressive beauty of the pink-orange moon that appeared to settle over Boise or that it was Friday night after all the olds are at home or already sleeping…

  • The Other Side of Solstice [prose poem - text / audio / video] - Today is the longest day of the year in Alaska and probably other places too where you can walk downtown and get free checking and a chance to win…

  • Word is Elegy [text] - He's thinking of a word he's thinking of / the word the word he's thinking / and isn't any closer to it…

Videopoems

Poems with Audio