Thursday, September 18, 2025

Snow

i was stuck in a room with
imagination like a top hat
and across the street saw a bookstore i’d last seen
almost forty years ago on the other coast

	hello     i’d like to buy
	the snows of yesteryear
	i came all the way from medieval france for that
	and the guy behind the counter looks at me says
	did i know you in college?
	this bookstore was in toronto     anyway
	not the village or telegraph avenue
	i can hear cars like lungs
	passing behind his voice

and the glow     of winged bicycles on the wall
sometimes age needs wheels
i really want that book     i really do
i know the snow i’ve crunched through to get here
sometimes a street is just real enough
and you’re on it







from Yew Nork (2014)

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

The Dictator's Taste in Art

visited the history museum today
and ate all the paintings
now have a gutache the cooks in my armies
could never take credit for

now it’s time to occupy another museum
make it a museum of cheeseburgers
turn the temperature up to where i like it
drool every time i smell the stench

visited the paintings    credit    credit
ate all the gutache    the cooks    the history
the never    the now    the time i like it
now it’s time to turn the temperature up to cheeseburgers
to occupy the drool    today    today
i smell the stench    up where    i like it





Written August 31, 2025