July 2005

Our father liked to play a game.   
He played that he was dead.   
He took his thick black glasses off   
and stretched out on the bed.      
   
He wouldn’t twitch and didn’t snore   
or move in any way.   
He didn’t even seem to breathe!   
We asked, Are you...

Defier of closed space, such as the head, opener
Of the sealed passageways, so that
Sunlight entering the nose can once again

Exit the ear, vaporizer, mist machine, whose
Soft hiss sounds like another human being
...

Many have rearranged their names
To test themselves with anagrams.
I diced up David Wagoner,
But Dowager Diva, Avoid Anger,
And Weird Vagina wouldn’t answer.
(Neither would Video Ad Rage.)
I filled up nearly...