Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña. Con la sombra en la cintura, ella sueña en su baranda verde carne, pelo verde, con ojos de fría plata. Verde que te quiero verde. Bajo la luna gitana, las...
Green I want you green green wind green branches Boat on the sea and horse on the mountain Shadow on her waist she dreams at her railing green flesh green hair eyes of cold silver Green I want you green Under the gypsy moon things are seeing her but she can’t...
Twelve years old and lovesick, bumbling and terrified for the first time in my life, but strangely hopeful, too, and stunned, definitely stunned—I wanted to cry, I almost started to sob when Chris Klein actually touched me—oh God—below the belt in the back row of the...
Above the fresh ruffles of the surf Bright striped urchins flay each other with sand. They have contrived a conquest for shell shucks, And their fingers crumble fragments of baked weed Gaily digging and scattering.
And in answer to their treble interjections The sun beats lightning...
Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper By the second string of teachers and wallflowers In the school gym across the key through the glitter Of mirrored light three-second rule forever Suspended you danced with her the best slow dancer Who stood on tiptoe who...
There are people to live for and people to die for I comfort myself: there are people to sleep with and people to wake with there are fifty thousand years...
It's easy to fall in love with the grocery store boys— the one with the tiny coffee cup sweatshirt, too-tight pants & cotton shoes or the impossibly pale fish boy who smiles when he says, I'm from Alaska. Your heart swelled, stupid & dreaming of a boat in arctic waters, stars, dots that dot the ocean floor, you will read him poems & he will...
At fourteen I wanted to devour you, the twang, the strut, the perfect proletarian butt in the black pants of you. I wanted a man like you to sashay into town and teach me how to be an aeroplane in water. I didn't want to...
It seems insane now, but she’d be standing soaked in schoolday morning light, her loose-leaf notebook, flickering at the bus stop, and we almost trembled
at the thought of her mouth filled for a moment with both of our short names. I don’t know what we saw when we...
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe...