Growing up Dying

And it was just three words, make no mistake, but there it hung, and burned into my eyes. The question left no room for a disguise: I was fo...

And she kissed me, or asked me to kiss her, on the jungle gym in the school playground up the street from where I used to live. Down the hil...

And as we cut a lazy curve of road my nostrils filled a moment with the scent of horses. When they come in dreams I know To wake before I sm...

Four years ago, nearly to the day, I landed at Leonardo da Vinci - Fiumacino airport in Rome. When my roomates went to sleep that night, tak...

And then they said, "get lost," and so I did, by following a hem around a turn and soon I found myself beneath a bridge and watchi...

We broke the bonds that held you, Iapeto, Beneath bleacher bench seats In Chicago . We loosed your many thousand years Of pain...

Gravel crackles under my footfalls sounding All the world like cockroaches carpet earth here In this subterranean temple, empty Save fo...