Poem Category: Miscellaneous

New year
finding rust gathered
in the widower’s car.

Midnight
in the en-suite mirror
her shadow stays and stays.

Southern Aurora
the ship’s cat
stepping more lightly.

Diaries found
each hope so neatly written
in our grandmother’s hand.

REM
yet sleep softens each fall
of her breast.

School holidays
scattered on the table
their rushed breakfast.

Starlight campfire
the near sound of horses
shuffling for warmth.

In the jade Buddha
almost a heartbeat
almost heard.

Dawn opens
the faintest sweep of willows
over the river mud.

I hawk, cannibal
in these mountains of the gods
kill whom I damn please.