Mem Mo

o mento
o month a short time
rue teen o aft or
that fifty years have passed
that light     o     fair
by flash     once
springs     a time when
o mento gone
	whee o mento gone
	age whuh so mo
	mento gone old so
	no so old o go
	ne synapse o
	na     so old     gone

from Yew Nork (2014)

Window Street

if i open
window:
street

i     there
a frantic
they

a red car running
carrying
groceries

then who
then no one

lonely window

then i
lifted i
one by one

then 
city
i
the city

from Yew Nork (2014)

For Judy

sitting propped up     against a tooth
in a forest of deciduous rainstorms
i hold your moon in my hands
	like an archaeopteryx
	like a model of the town of ur
	like a blue mushroom’s urgent dreams of sunrise
sweat drops     from leaves
footprints erase themselves around me
a lake     far away
takes its place among the clouds
	and your moon glows like a heart
	and i try to find songs for it
	and the tooth is so smooth
	the ground below it so warm
	that it sighs in the moonlight

from Yew Nork (2014)

Beach

you should be careful around
the oceans inside your shoes

they can drown you

there is nothing to absorb them
even socks     even artificial sponge

they fill your shoes every time you walk
then     after you’re used to that
they fill them every time you think
then your thoughts walk
carry you to the edge of an ocean
you couldn’t have imagined otherwise

it’s the loneliness there
the loneliness there that can drown you

from Yew Nork (2014)