Tag: solitude

  • December 16, 2023

    This is a partial collage: I started this poem by pulling words from a translation of “The Pipe” by Stéphane Mallarmé, but as I assembled it I felt the urge to go in a new direction. Yesterday I found a fine winter. I forgot the room, the first roads. I was planning my sun, shivering…

  • July 7, 2023

    Grandiose as sound: straightforward notes, conscious excavating exactly what. But sound hints listening. Rise two regular to aversion. To the need. And idea bodies briefly. Think liquids on solitude. To convey suggests some best. To length by heart. Of all tell which things reminds melancholy recognizable. Unobtrusive to urge for unhinged there: admit intimate there.…