TASTING NOTES

for JF and DA

CAMPOS DE DULCINEA

Classical and fruity Tempranillo from

the land of D. Quixote. offers cherry

aroma mixed with Spanish character.

its youth invites to drink with friends.

accompanied by red meat. pasta. risotto

or some Spanish tapas.

Tempranillo clasico. afrutado y

aterciopelado de la tierra de Don

Quijote ofrece aroma a cerezas

mezelado con temperamento espanol

en el vaso. A hase de su caracter joven.

el vino anima a tomarto con amigos.

Aconsejado para carne asada. pasta.

risotto o tapas.

CRUISING

for SM

The two of us, here, playing thugs.

Let's get roughed up behind the bank.

We'll bruise ourselves with shame and lust.

You can leave your wedding ring on

and I'll play pussy. Drop these masks

like trousers. Now we are real men.

Afterwards, you'll tuck your shirt in

to your still damp crotch, wipe your hand

on the brick. I'll rub the bite mark

on my cheek and worry what I'll...

We never exchange names, just shrugs.

We melt to life, anonymous.

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TRUE STORY

My friend works with alcoholics

and the alcoholics

calculate their drinking in bottles.

My father tells me I drink too much.

I opened a bottle of wine,

in my suburban estate,

for a Scandinavian family from the city.

My father drank every night of the week.

Whiskey. Rum and Coke. A Daiquiri.

My father never told me I drink too much.

A bottle of Lightning. Bells.

                                                                                       

TUMBLERS

SNOW LAKE LEAF STAR
SHOW LIKE LEAD SOAR
SHOP LIME DEAD SOAP
SHIP LIMB DEED SLAP
WHIP LAMB FEED SLAM
WHIM LAME FEAT CLAM
WHAM DAME FLAT CLAY

TWIG HAWK CROW FISH
SWIG HAWS GROW FIST
SWAG HAMS GLOW FAST
SLAG HUMS SLOW LAST
SLAY HUMP SLOT LASH
FLAY HEMP SLIT LUSH

HOWL MIND MIST WALK
COWL MINE MAST WALL
COAL WINE MASH BALL
FOAL WANE WASH BULL
FOOL WANT WISH GULL

RAIN MOSS BEAR BONE
RAIL LOSS BEER DONE
FAIL LOST LEER DOVE
FOIL POST LEEK LOVE

EYES WIND ROCK MOON
DYES WAND COCK MOAN
DUES SAND CORK MOAT

FROG DEER SEED CAMP
FLOG DEEM SEND LAMP

DAWN COLD DUST FIRE


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THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH PAPER BURNS

for the Freedom Bookshop

At 451 fahrenheit or 450
or a little higher or a little lower
paper combusts. Though its contents

may send the thermometer gun
racing up through russet, cerise
to white. Paper burns fast and fires

can come quickly out of control.
If a bookshop were to burn
the metal stacks would buckle

under the pressure of the words
burst into scalding smoke,
scorching the walls, refusing to choke.


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A LIGHT SHOW DURING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT INVOLVING A PEDESTRIAN

There are streetlamps reflected in the rider's visor.

A white curtain of rain glittered by crossed headlamps on half beam.

As the motorcycle lurches under the bodies there are sparks.

The bodies are turning through space, tumbling through electricity.

The bodies are spacemen. A half-dawned earth where the faces lived.

EASTER

It was just a couple of steps
I hope
They don't break the skin
No bruising
I am three days alive