A child’s first smile, its mountain- bitterness and sweetness, its ends— not easily—extend and nurse the ocean’s anarchy. He is well—invincibly—his soothed lips toy with names and stitch a rainbow suture, his unlimited awareness of appearances. Stirred, the subsoil paws— the snail mouth flows and hastens— tuning lightly in amazement, in my eyes this Atlas […]
I dreamed I was never so lonely Re-treading the years where I have never been My life saved by a peach sno-cone the color of roses And sitting on the sidewalk outside the 76 eating fried chicken. From here I can see where the fire jumped the highway and kept going. I was so angry […]
