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The Kilogram

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The Great Responsibilities of Air and Light in Manhattan

- 2006, 2007

Three Haiku on the Dartmouth College Green in Spring

the clouds think above
webster hall that echoed before –
my water soon is potable

lincoln center resemblances
while kids and I read schiller under ball of light:
the slow, mighty breeze

the Baker library lawn
the noiselessness of distant croquet players
overconfidence

- 2006

Raging Feather

After playing with words and twisting thought,
My pen drops on sand as fist clenches.
My back bends to vomit, my throat taut.
Oh God, I think the rage in me dances.

I use a ballpoint to reopen wounds; to rage, release.
To my right, a bottle cries for lips.
But I let blood flow a little more; to some, disease.
To my left, an ocean dies, no ships.

Scabs, scabs, scabs.
Scabs on sand and water.
Never to heal - always to the slaughter.

Philippine Panorama, April, 1993

Declaiming Ashbery to Lake Ontario

-2006, 2007

Cincinnati

There is nothing as transitory as these:

From middle seat through airplane window,
Drizzle on runway below.
05:57:31.
Delta to Logan at 09:00:00.

Shops to open in a while.
Thoughtless air fills huge terminal.
Outside, just cloudy.
In the smoking area, smell of tar.

But beyond the clouds,
Bonaparte crosses Berezina,

40,000 souls frozen in winter altitudes,

Socrates sends Xantippe away,
Persephone, and VV Cephei Alpha,

The largest star in space.

- 2004, 2007