Nijinsky's Sacre de Printemps Ambition in arts, heaven forbid small-scale hurrying past horrors old age, fame, the hit parade intrinsic stardom that lives in an unscreened dance scene--   Your name on high, clever romancing of biways, c… more »

Just spent a couple weeks in New Mexico. Saw a great Impressionist show at Albuquerque Museum--Turner, Cezanne, Van Gogh, August John. Augustus John has some great portraits of women. Old friends Neil and Sonia put me up at their daughter's home near Old… more »

   FEASTS                                   (for Arthur Sherman)   The dead   with their sewn mouths   will not sup with me. They watch,     eyes wide with longing   at each fork raised, with each swallow   of wine, whenever a woman   la… more »

  Old Times   I am looking   for a note from you   and "Seven Easy Dinners" comes up   on the screen and suddenly   I remember how we left   the food on our plates   that first night, coming   home to fuck. Say yes to all things   and t… more »

Spending time on Versed, Rae Armantrout's Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection. My friend Geoff Young (The Figures Press) published her first book in 1978. Thought of her as part of the Language Poets, but never could quite dig what any of them were… more »

                               The Rite of Spring                                  Nijinsky’s Crone              for Lee & Eva Choreographed             to be what we              tribes were she                                 is,… more »

Fears     for Peter Marin   Is it death          finally behind it?       pulling the plug                   on grandpa? End of life care-- One Tea Part y sign reads 'No more Afro-Leninism'   No guns for terrorists? 'You're with… more »

     THE ORDER OF THINGS                             (For Stanley Keleman)     The order of things   revealing itself permits us   the freedom of rest --   this, then, is our world.   Mathematicians know it   among numbers, thinkers   am… more »