I was reading this book to provide a blurb and couldn't help underlining favourite passages--a good sign, to be sure. Here they are:
their heads
full of yes each night a heaved dice
& we're driving further through it each year
*
the faces
from our life passing like boarded-up doors
their heads
full of yes each night a heaved dice
& we're driving further through it each year
*
the faces
from our life passing like boarded-up doors
from "1991-2006"
the smell of motor oil & sawdust
& the moon threaded through
opening stanza of "confession"
& we're here again
passing the whiskey that started the fire
in our throats watching the town
lights wash slowly into darkness
end of "matches"
...these
morning-breakers rubbing
their hands & checking the mirror
each with their own nightmare
tensed like a razor over
the skin of another morning
facing the exhaustion
of ever-thickening snow
second half of "winter"
I'll keep this lightning trapped in my hip
my strange weather the dent I sank into
will rise from the sofa in a mist
of cologne & possibilities
end of "doppelganger"
where we sit & empty
glass after glass into the night your son asleep
the walls creeping closer to the ghostly down
on his neck
*
the roof dreaming its only dream
of the weight of rain
from "the cottage"
tonight is a rope we can burn & burn
opening line of "affair"
she tried to shake the terrible
from me until the bed glittered like the sea
from "the terrible"
the gaping o of you
from "L O V E"
in dreams
I have two legs my mother stays
& childhood is a single house
*
with a gin in hand I drink
myself to perfection each night
rather obviously, from "in dreams"
glittering with laughter in the sheets beside you
from "phantom"
