With no one to properly apply the tourniquet, he afforded himself the rare opportunity to just bleed everywhere. On the bedskirt, the garlic bowl, the painting of a smudge that …

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In Egyptian art, one archer stands For all archers, Their contour drawn from his thigh, his shin, his chest, His bow and quiver, A deck of desires slightly spread. Archers …

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Not Winnifred the town we couldn’t see. The fox we weren’t sure was a fox but might have been if not a mutt. Not the way we— the air conditioning—not …

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Du Fu, you doofus, that’s not a goose. You’re drunk. Please allow me to introduce… no, that’s not your horse. (No, nor woman neither.) Into every life a little Freud …

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When he broke, he broke like an oak box full of castanets tossed into the frozen river. He broke like a stuntman through the plate glass of Odysseus’ conscience. Broke …

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A friend, seeing his babe in ultrasound, imagined it an astronaut, “behind glass dome reflections, lost in space…,” and so I had that image close to mind when the technician …

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i. m. Hugh Le Caine Here are the grossly educational displays: giant holograms, electric guitars strung with light, and nebulae spread out onto canvas that might fold up neatly in …

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Shambling through sand in Patagonia and Columbia wear, we queue up for a rare chance to be wowed. The Sky News guy twiddles the azimuth knob, lures us with the …

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Were that I were immovable as rock While you were irresistible as water! As it is, I wince at every shock Who ought to be absorbent as a blotter. My …

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For Gladys Finley Farewell, a long farewell to all the joys Of woods and water, valley, stream, and hill! Goodbye as well to all the tarnished boys With names like …

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