The Bitter Man


Rabbits with shine in their eyes     

Ruffle around evil     

Her red face   looming 

At the Italian boys

The brown river      

Threads itself     the scene

What brings me     from one stage

To the next     white melon   

The bitter man     with the small stool

Speaks of survival

A beetle      in mirage water

But I can’t see     when I come

You run at me from a distance

The shape of my character starts   

Not in my mind

But in my    experience     

Bring my shadow     a mistress

To the      Italians

This brown water     a sign  

Leaches words     oil  

Fever     runs on Earth 

A vehicle   

A shameless fear      opens

The living   

Opens the lungs up 

Columbina and Pedrolino


In open squalor

I love you ambitionless

In Egypt     Etruria 

I press my drive

Around     as host

To my life   

I know the extremity     entrance

I have some fear  

I want some more

I feel it dry   

Oblivion     in blue clothes

Changed by trouble

And sleep     it is hot

When I move away

From you

Upstream     it is Lord

Columbina in the Square


Simmering aboveground is the feeling

I was carried off     I came back

In the sound’s blackest

Registers     far below the trapped music

An enormous heat rises

Merely an element of that heat

I am seduced     no     persuaded

Even if I am so clothed 

In descriptionless     tyranny   

I’m naked when you come

A pretty water hung      mirrors hung 

Stones     at the square’s entrance 

There were people

Not like us     they moved like gel

Around us

In an exile     their own   

That which is      scarcely

Here     in the world     is here

Columbina in the Afternoon


Form protects me   

From extinction   

Form repeats  

Still     you may press down 

On the old     for the new

Soon   

See my shadow   

Standing lengthily  

Apart     at the end   

Of day     time  

Its sheer necrotic novelty   

An uneasy frame  

In ambient red

Everything I saw

I never said   

People     their early beauty

Itinerancy     its edge

A looking light  

All rooms ruin