Poetry; Heaven Bone Press,
Chester, NY, 1993, $4.95.

A Reading Sample (Collected in Eros in Sanskrit)

Busted

What’s bum but a word the mouth casts out, spoken without need of teeth or tongue. Bum: a hole in a human face only a bottle can reach. What’s homeless victim but a double trochee’s play-it-as-it-lays phrase to separate them that got from them that not while keeping expanding catastrophes at bay. What’s rat but ribs & grease, antenna nose, fast little feet whose pink offspring squeeze through tunnels humans leave when the city they’ve built begins to decay. Rat: a fink, or raton: what’s left when a species starts to eat its own.