one can eat / memories too / but still expect / to starve

“Sleuthing involved a lot of inter-personal contact, apparently, and it was making me uncomfortable. From now on, I decided, I would make my own coffee.”

“They cannot see the road or anything around them. It is as if they are traveling in a capsule through space. Hurtling on a mission into some vast unknown.”

“I ignore her, keep chomping dots. Surprisingly, I’m having a great game.”

“Creativity is a well waiting to be dipped into; my experiences in the world are the source feeding that well and small coincidental events also play a part.”

“I saw the first plane hit the World Trade Center. I thought it was an airplane that had gone out of control. I went home and watched the news. That’s when I found out about the second plane.”

“God,” Satan said, “How will you move your creation over the Deep?”

Because I’m trembling, because can it be true? / Is this a dream? / Because of the delightful irony / That you—are not a he.

Now more than ever is time to wake again / and run with cousins across scurf to the barn / to dislodge chickens from their roosts

“She wore a silk sari, just like Ma, but it was cream-white, like Kwality’s Ice Cream.”

It’s dangerous to lie down / mid-day, late March and dark, / a heavy, wet snow falling from the sky

“The man listened to her zipper going down. And then he heard her pee. He turned around and grinned in the dark. ‘You did it,’ he said.”

“Through creating these small and delicate but dense areas of each painting, I want the viewer to self-examine his own place within the larger societal system.”

Linking economic activities to gender-based violence in Ethiopian refugee camps.

And the turkey burned dimly against / the urgency of distant and trailing lightning. / Burned against the absence of rain. / Burned and lit the edges of cool sand blue.

“There are no kids in the lot at recess, just a few more cops milling around and taking notes. Everyone’s either kidnapped by Roger or kept home by terrified parents.”

“I’m only bound to the dimensions of the space itself. While composing, I keep in mind the credo ‘form follows function’.”

the mile markers, the billboards roofing houses / with offers of adult toys, gas / and oil bathed potatoes.

“Deaths may be unexpected or peaceful or following lengthy illnesses and battles of the courageous sort. Deaths may be natural or tragic and senseless.”

nothing yet published / I bought an IBM Selectric / a testament to / dedication since I / didn’t own a car & barely / rented a room in a small house