Explore Poems: Activities

It was a shit shift.
            You served a salmon roll
                         to someone allergic.

Sat with simultaneous eight-tops,
            you cursed your lack of an addy. The boss

There’s always a snowstorm coming
and I’m always booked at a café
on the other side of the mountain…

in cuba
a dark skin woman asks me
if i’m from angola
i try to explain in the no spanish i know
that…

trenched pattern set deep
into its brown, pieces
secured in dark, a whole
thing living out its days…

Keyed up after a sleepless flight,
we stared at the Place de la Comédie:
the stone Graces glowing pink…

I am told the cows                                accept new cows on the spot.

I prefer the way I feel
in the old country
someone tweeted. Timeline of nations
to nations. I mean
something…

Arrival of  boats from faraway
headlines, newspaper stands selling
packet gum, candy bars, cigars. Ships…

It’s an hour before noon, and Amtrak train no. 56 rips a path
through the rain outside Baltimore,
its …

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
con esos cachetitos asoleados,
te quiero engullir a besos.

Anda sigue, coquet…

Ay, goldo, goldito, goldo
with those sunbathed baby cheeks,
I want to gobble you up in kisses.

Please go…

in which kobe seeks a mentor to train him

Praying for a fiery muse, he was
answered by the clang of hammers…

Ciao sachet chum, porkpie panache,you ditsy-dots chatelaine.
Takes that much work to be a fairywith a hoyi-hoyi-hoyi.

It rises from the desert into clouds
It sinks into the river of eternity
Time can’t wash away
Its short…

After leaving a busy dock
We come to a new railway station
We chase time like this all our lives
The journey…

这一刻是沙漠从云端耸起
沉下的是恒河之旅
那是洗不去的光阴
一个小时代的美好派对
一支雪茄飘出的哈瓦那
曾经还是左派的年月
格瓦拉的伏特加扁酒壶
塞进一张列侬和洋子的美颜照
那时我们多么热爱和平
其实…

刚刚离开了繁忙的码头
又来到一个陌生的车站
一生中我们就这样追寻着时间
或许是因为旅途被无数次的重复
其实人类从来就没有一个所谓的终点
可以告诉你，我是一个游牧民族的儿子
我相信爱情和死亡是一种方式
而这一切都只会…

my job used to be teaching a machine
to recognize complaints filed against police officers
that contained…

Bomber jacket trimmed with venom,
I pace the canyon like a parasite:
EK monogram, US flag, and cane,
the…

Once, in winter, I was blessed
      by lightning, the plane
sudden struck—the boom

of it, the cabin lit …