Hairs of the Lord

Hurry, I can. Hurry, I can.

03.16.2011 Hairs of the Lord

“But you’re not a worker bee. You’re a renegade killer bee.” from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill The birds knit these grey inarticulate scarves. You have to see them in big pieces. Rub your eyes. You have to touch the wool until it buzzes. You have to, with your own blood / hunker down / while branches fall [...]

Tagged as: Ars, Diary Poems, NP

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You’re fired, Spirits.

11.30.2010 Hairs of the Lord

Earth / Ambigue I sleep not &  it works & rains / horses on my house rode way / out breath on the windows in sensitivities/ straps with- hold me the whole exercise of rain Turning the earth often / softening surfeit earth. So dark /mingling Amalgam /ohmygod /hockneyed night I inch by

Tagged as: NP, To Go

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Leaves fall leaves

11.07.2009 Hairs of the Lord

_______________ when fills the sky with leaves and day bits & dim breaks day speaks / cudgel the word for casting effing naked claws at bay // why sweet bay my mind ex- alts _______________ where pelicans fasten some plural of touching down, floating kinds of hay, Hello sweetness exists lightishly /  on the purple [...]

Tagged as: NP, To Go

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‘ville annul

07.24.2009 Hairs of the Lord

the horses break/they horses /             break into bed, two reek : addendum/bits/flies. They weeeee as we was as egg as broke & mighty Porous & still- warm, we raked hours across             our sores. O pins: we said the hairs of the lord harnessed our hearts/parkas/feeling [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published, The Ville

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rivers there

05.18.2009 Hairs of the Lord

# Alligator Creek: # Arroyo Colorado: # Bear Creek: # Bull Creek: # Burnt Boot Creek: # Calf Creek: # Cibolo Creek Park: # Cowhouse Creek: # Dixon Creek: # Medio Creek: # Onion Creek: # Pecan Bayou: # Pederson Creek: # Perdido Creek: # Rancho Viejo: # Salado: # South Prong Creek: # Woman [...]

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Be a chooser go

04.02.2009 Hairs of the Lord

Hey bay for us today & carrion the market collapses takes us in / grants one dance one only see us newt bright green collapse the little air therein                  rays of heaven headed us are hairs / ends / days / mists / pale discrepancies. us stands for us [...]

Tagged as: America Poems, Animal Poems, Published, Rants

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Plaintextriversong

03.12.2009 Hairs of the Lord

cry me river red blood river the engine driver sundowned What Can I Do mine Honeyslide the details when I look down big river down of goldenmain yellow sees ohio riverboat piss in a river driver find thee/the world river depo- sition men re- pose of rivers

Tagged as: Out, Rants

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Who Art

08.26.2007 Hairs of the Lord

our father is putting butter in issues of fruit of pears and apples, oranges our father is apparent and even suspended a little he flicks small geometries out,  grapes out of their situations if our father were the client he would say follow the collander and follow we would flipping around remember the literal PDF [...]

Tagged as: Published

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Prayer for my Brother

09.29.2006 Hairs of the Lord

This way of the pin, twice the way– little pinetops and stone walks we take to the grassy mall hydraulic sky. “I negotiated a raise today” oh brother. Out of pudding. & the people eat &  sleep & their very, very bodies gerrymander obsequiously I count up, up the smooth-faced mountain mouth, its hairless face, [...]

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Prayer for my father

08.08.2006 Hairs of the Lord

God, this is a prayer for my father on his birthday, among the lights rising out of the lake backdrafting a little. The water runs from it. This prayer is for water running from roof and eaves. A box of water. This is for my father’s good eye. For a pattern of clouds. For the eggs [...]

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