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  • more “Loose the Stays”

    September 21, 2007

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    Since there was some interest in these poems, I figured I’d post a few more. I do not have images of all of the poems, which is something I need to work on. Anyway, enjoy. And thanks for reading.

  • an old project, revisited

    June 6, 2007

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    This is one of about twenty poems I did using Susan Brownmiller’s book Femininity as the ground for a new narrative. They are tenatively titled “Loose the Stays”, but since the format is odd, I haven’t really published them. I have been trying to figure out how to make them work in print. Currently, I […]

  • Sparks

    February 16, 2007

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    That is our body, there are fuses–sometimes the arcing electricity is blinding,blows cicuit breakers breaking under the weightof secrets and sorrow and singularity Sparking, this is my bodyin the shadows This is my body that confusesand confesseslights up the darknesswith quick flames — that lick the sore spots This is my body a confessionan omission […]

  • EOAGH is out

    February 13, 2007

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    reading launch for EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, Issue Three: Queering Language Saturday, March 24th, 6pm to 8pmROBIN’S BOOKSTOREhttp://www.robinsbookstore.com/108 S. 13th St.Philadelphia hosted by Tim Peterson & CAConrad Readers will include:Dodie Bellamy, Kyle Conner, CAConrad, Jim Cory, Sarah Dowling, Maria Fama, Chris Gullo, hassen, Mytili Jagannathan, Anne Kaier, Candace Kaucher, Erica Kaufman, Kevin Killian, […]

  • some thoughts in a poem-ish form

    January 30, 2007

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    To the you who I have lost: there are so many, reallyhow to find the words–and then speakthem out of stillness in words, losses become more real, more palpable sometimes, easier to be wordless as if describing makes it so So losing that sparkallows you to suffocate and fadeyou did that–too long–faded, I mean. So […]

  • another poem I dug up

    October 27, 2006

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    On the Creation of Secrets Sit down. Be quiet. Don’t breathe. Don’t speak. Don’t ask why. I will shut my mouth. I will never speak again. I will shrink away. I will wear dresses and play with dolls. I will not get dirt on my knees. Don’t cry in public. Learn your lesson. Bite your […]

  • something of a revision

    October 25, 2006

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    Here is something old that I revised today, after looking through a very old notebook: We live in the crescendo of wingsbeating, seamless–meaning–an awareness of silenceour words breaking under the weight of empty air– This, the space between bodies– friction of distance

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