Frank: sonnets

[I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment]

[The problem with sweetness is death]

[Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me]

[I met a man a dying man]

[It is abominable, unquenchable by touch]

[Sometimes I can't feel it]

[I could do it. I could walk into the sea]

[Press a foot into this beach]

[The best is when you respond]

[From this bench I like to call my bench]

[Poetry, the only father, landscape]

[Here on this edge]

[To return from Paradise]

[What is it you feel, I asked Kurt]

[Listening to "Summertime"]

[There is a certain state of grace]

["No need to sparkle"]

[My earliest memory]

[Since age three, I went looking]

[Who wants to be soft? I don't]

[I was raised in a rectangle]

[I was not a large child]

[Freak accidents do happen]

[My first crush was Wild Bill Hickok]

[They lived next door, four boys]

[I suck so many cough drops]

[I floated I flew I fell to Earth]

[That bar, World of the Satisfyin' Place]

[Labels now slip off me like clothes]

[All at once David went catatonic]

[I want drugs again; whimsy]

[His body was barely cold]

[The lambs this year are dumb]

[One's got an eye thing]

[When the lamb humped her leg]

[After the pigs and lambs and rabbits]

[The parents tried to build a little Eden]

[The fat suffering of the farrowing sow]

[The patriarch of Jesus Camp is dead]

[It was a land without charm]

[The White Rabbit was before]

[They wander in, two Southdowns]

[He came to us all the way down here with us]

[For a couple years, I slept nights]

[Once, I took a Greyhound north]

[I have slept in many places]

[My first night in New York]

[I'm watching yl Face in the Crowd]

[I can't rest, can't get no relief]

[I should have been in cinema]

[Parties among strangers]

[There's something to be said for having]

[Margaret Sanger did the first one]

[I saw Robert Creeley]

[The famous poets came for us]

[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some]

[I can't say I loved punk]

[Thirty-nine years ago is nothing]

[We all have our trauma nadir]

[I aborted two daughters]

[I fell on an incline, talus, tibia]

[There is a force that breaks the body]

[It's that time of spring]

[OD'd on his Suboxone]

[I hoisted them, two drug dealers]

[Freelance artist. That's what you say]

[How do you stand being so virtuous]

[Where is the drug to drug]

[Then, I account it high time to get to sea]

[Which, he asks me, is your favorite story]

[She's a big James Stewart fan]

[Why would God be so mean, he asks]

[Then when I grew up]

[What do you think Elvis's best song was]

[On what day do you think Jesus]

[Maybe we wander]

[I've lived with death from the beginning]

[I fell in love with death]

[I could do the love]

[I've encountered the exoskeleton]

[All lives have their tropes]

[In the dream, my mother called my name]

[I dreamed of it again, my dad's body]

[I dreamed I had to find my way]

[Goldenrod, I could say, you know]

[How will I leave this life, like I left my job]

[I dreamed a color, no plot, a color]

[He called from San Francisco]

[I want to zero in on what he looked like]

[He said it bummed him out his dick]

[I saw a little movie of a person stroking]

[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial]

[Death does not exist in poetry]

[I was tethered to this Earth]

[Abrupt lines on the nature of beauty]

[Literature is dangerous business]

[I wanted to be the boy in the book]

[My literary tastes of late are manic]

[Chekhov sits waiting for me]

[Either all of this is an apparition or I am]

[Mountains black today, hiding]

[For twenty-six days I lived]

[When I am away J miss]

[It's a real Garden of Eden story]

[And then landscape was all there was]

[The emergent self is not a self that loves]

[Takes time to get to minimalism]

[All things now remind me]

[Those days, if I consider them]

[The world today is wet]

[The small stuff, the care]

[I can't see her clearly]

[It won't kill me to be sad again]

[I wish I still smoked]

[The sonnet, like poverty]

[My favorite scent is my own funk]

[You know what living means]

[Marry dull]

[Lately I've been feeling about poetry]

[Ever since Elise brought up]

[My private parts are many]

[Back then its hair was Cleopatraed]

[To say that I'm a witch]

[After forty years]

[For me it's going to be]

[I courted her, that musky tart]

[My tits are bruised]

[I hope when it happens].