#Americans #Jews #Women
This is the long tunnel of wanting… Its walls are lined with remembere… wet & red as the inside of you… full & juicy as your probing t… warm as your belly against mine,
Rising in the morning like warm bread, from a bed in America, the aroma
The lessons we learned here (fumbling with our lunchbags, handkerchiefs & secret cheeks of bubblegum) were graver than any
The women he has had are all faces without eyes. He has entered them blind as a cut worm. He has swum their oceans
If it is impossible to promise absolute fidelity, this is because we learn so much geography from the shifting of one body
You take me to the restaurant wher… plays God over a fish tank. The f… pace their green cage, waiting to… out of an element. Who knows what… There are thirteen in a tank meant
A delicate border. A nonexistent… The train obligingly dissolves in… The G.I. next to me is talking wa… I don’t ‘know the Asian mind,’ he… Moving through old arguments.
The lover in these poems is me; the doctor, Love. He appears
At dusk Demeter becomes afraid for baby Persephone lost in that hell which she herself created
Cement up to the neck & my head packed with unsaid words. A gullet full of pebbles, a mouth
center The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself. Not with a leather whip,
I am the Sphinx. I am the woman buried in sand up to her chin. I am waiting for an archaeologist to unearth me,
I want to understand the steep thi… that climbs ladders in your throat… I can’t make sense of you. Everywhere I look you’re there— a vast landmark, a volcano
After the college reading, the eager students gather. They ask me
Old bag of bones upside down, what are you searching for in poetry, in meditation?