Small Words

You need the pause that calms you, The bit of awe, just that bit, That tunes the beast that is you Those beats you’re not lost in us. ...

And names can know what we can’t, As names, start to live. Not names But not-names, those weird, made-up Names linked to art that seems ...

To name not two or more But just the one, the one Case, the one thing, the one Crime that one day, the one Time in one tongue, the one ...

To come and go is not to end. What comes, must go. It does not end. What stays a while is not for good. What stays is come and go gone s...

How Boole put it. Take a class, A set out of the world, And call it x. Then the class Of all non-x, all the rest Of the world, is one, ...

Poems are crimes. The past will change. You can try to glue these things, Tar and pitch them, boil some hides. Poems are sins. The ones ...

What is it you don’t want to see? How bad it was. How much was you. The harm done to the lives of those Like you, not quite like you, to...