Summer - by
Where heather and Scots pines
Remind us of evenings past
When the world was less a place of wrong,
love
Love in the time of Lexapro - by
It’s not quick & I’m resentful for this.
My SSRI & I are in a deep, dream-like relationship.
I am fully awake in the static;
when they leave, I shake,
when they stay, I sleep.
Japanese Wind Telephone - by
from which the grieving
can dial the numbers
of their lost ones and speak
to the listening dead.
Mill o’ Tifty’s Annie - by
At Mill O’ Tifty there lived a man
In the neighborhood of Fyvie
He had a bonnie dochter dear
Whose name was Bonnie Annie
Uile Gu Lèir - by
Coimhead rithe.
Bheir do chridhe dhi.
Bheir do chluais dhi.
Real Presence - by
Clear as the endless ecstasy of stars
/ That mount for ever on an intense air;
/ …
Love is like a dizziness - by
O, love, love, love!
Love is like a dizziness;
It winna let a puir body
Gang about his biziness!
Dissection of an Infant – Vascular Preparation - by
I would have loved you, wept
/ with your father and your mother
/ over these tiny perfect hands, perfect feet
/
/ preserved skin-free, en-pointe –
/ as…