Audio Poem: No Sleep

no-sleep.mp3

Poem: No Sleep

NO SLEEP
Something in me doesn’t want to sleep
I might wake up in the rubble of Berlin
or marooned on an island wearing shoes
or after everyone has left the train as it
chugs its desolation through the Alps
Or the light has gone out of the world
And the tea set for the saints in their crystalline robes
has no place [...]

Poem: A Stone Hits the Ground (followed by audio)

A STONE HITS THE GROUND
A stone hits the ground and
wonders how it got there
A house stands on its foundations
welcoming its guests
A gust of wind turns a corner
and thinks itself clever
A river roars from its source
yelling all the way to the sea
Corks and people float on the world
thinking they’re top bananas
Bananas hide in their skins from [...]

AUDIO POEM: A Stone Hits the Ground

 a-stone-hits-the-ground.mp3