“For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.”

Hathor, Mistress of the West rose up through the mud,
Clothed in the sun and wearing a cobra skin dress,
She worked on her father’s farm tilling the soil
And had to go the… Read full post »

Megan Smedley met Saint Peter barefoot in the desert,

Her toes aflame, rhymes tumbling from her mouth—

Saying Natalie Wood could pass for a Brit under a big sky,

Faceless and shy like Emma, like you, like Donatella Versace,

All the boys want you—… Read full post »

If I could list the names of every ugly woman in the world,
It would be longer than the list of the dead and wounded
From every war since the beginning of time—
It would include some of the most desirable women in the world,
Though maybe “desirable” is the wrong word&mda… Read full post »

I was enjoying my suspension, despite its complications. Monday morning I was making breakfast while the girls slept. The phone rang. I answered it, stirring eggs. Captain Palmer came on shouting. He was angry. I was calm. That made him angrier.

 "Nick, I suspended you… Read full post »

"In the beginning, SPIRIT within (spiritus intus) 

Strengthens Heaven and Earth,

The watery fields, and the lucid globe of Luna, and then—

Titan stars; and mind (mens) infused through the limbs

Agitates the whole mass, 

And mixes… Read full post »

The poet is the anti-censor

Speaking without quotation marks—

Whose mouth is not his own,

But belongs to the wide world—

Who forms words you dare not say, ever—

Who looks at pictures you cannot see,

Who sees too many… Read full post »

No woman could be more perfect than Bettie Page

In her half slip unless her name were Kat Trim,

I don’t know, I’m no seer—

And frankly, my dear, I don’t care

There once a poet named Rimbaud

Who drank too much and threw up… Read full post »