Hairs of the Lord

Chandelier Prayer

06.28.2006 Hairs of the Lord

Having accumulated the freight and put the years through a hole, the pearl of the hole shining– Oh Anna! Anna does the truth seek you out, behind time? in relation two timing? with regard to time, they strike and they strike thru the fillings. They strike at the center of an image. As if theirs [...]

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Go Do It

05.29.2006 Hairs of the Lord

Get these grapes and some hair. Adorning you, go dream unto my little self. Underneath my back, go white and whence. The grass, the grass. Go do the thing with your lime tree. Sling shot across the windows blind, be late, pop. Born like a dog beside a road, the geese rise, their white something. [...]

Tagged as: Published

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Tender is the One

11.02.2005 Hairs of the Lord

We are doing the pointing and looking after it, protecting its back as we go over the trace that is light, ferrying it against the sound of following It is light like after, like fumes or dull like orange pulp and white We get it in us as it goes, obliquely, the corners of our [...]

Tagged as: NP, To Go

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Oriental Rugs || Antiques & New

09.02.2005 Hairs of the Lord

Don’t try I am sleeping inside with______looters a big dog,_______will be an ugly woman,___shot two shotguns and a claw hammer

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Away from the Bitter Dogbane

08.17.2005 Hairs of the Lord

The generic name Apocynum, is derived from the Greek “apo” meaning away from, and “kuon” meaning dog, alluding to its ancient use as a dog poison. Ingestion of any part of this plant can cause poisoning and sometimes death to cattle, sheep, and horses. Because the milky sap is bitter, the plants are usually avoided. [...]

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To Be Ascetic

08.15.2005 Hairs of the Lord

the orchard (1) Up we up orange & yellow groves, re- canopy of orange & blue; going night / in a fold of wires. Our One shadow is a net, this light and lace grey hat         in lists of grasses going on. Who are these people anointing each other w/ plums and halved [...]

Tagged as: Animal Poems, Published

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Prayer for Me, Lord

06.29.2005 Hairs of the Lord

Lord, I don’t get this machine that take my card and I better. I gotta get to Chili’s. Lord, I am paid back for doing things innocuously, paid in small sentences, reports, and also having a role in paying me, in the time it takes–these procedures are for the cannery– my data spreads on this [...]

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That There Be Dogs

05.18.2005 Hairs of the Lord

beside the bushes, sleeping blown through like clothes, bushes blown against the white houses up the street, how they look rising up here. Glimmers skirting the lampposts and rolls of worn curb; a mouse skittering and gone. I am not even disturbing it. This, in my hand, is a Sweeping it through the aisles, there [...]

Tagged as: NP

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That There Be Night

04.08.2005 Hairs of the Lord

long enough. Its consistency, that of a pond I watch early spring completely in love. With who is not important. In patterings of turtles flopping on. A duck apart from the raft what-ing at dogs. & of it was running over the dark. Be a jiggling of leaves that fashion the poplars, the sounds and shapes [...]

Tagged as: Supplication

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That there (be)

04.08.2005 Hairs of the Lord

these tossings, on the walkway, aside. Lightly, gauzed, they are, left like the hose, dewed, on the white walkway. There(s), gardening to do, hair betwixt the blades, green and slickly turning to, here, they are shears, on the under gardened impatiens, dew dew.

Tagged as: NP

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