Jillian is a talented individual. She can exist in any time period and geography, be it Ancient Rome, the Spanish invasion of South America, Victorian Era England, American Colonialism, or present day. She has the added abilities of communicating with the past and changing genders. For a couple of years I’ve been [...]
Yet again my students prove they cannot listen—that simply hearing is beyond them. They must be distracted because otherwise they might actually start thinking about something in the world around them, or, worse yet, they might start thinking about something in the past or something in the world that is not immediately around them, maybe [...]
Comparison Disc Poems, Spring 2008
Short Skirt, Long
Cake is easy as rising,
yeasty as soda, long
as the jacket covers,
a barely-skirted bum,
as sweet as sweat in fluid
neon light-curves of rave.
Sweet Jane
Your smile, purled by one
tiny stitch—older, you’d regret
the lines left, traces of joy,
traces of pain.
Ice
Cheese, even then, poof-cake, but
despite all that cool in the white-kid-from-the-suburbs
kind of way that [...]
The Singleness of the Eye
—a sculpture by Paul Friesen, 1981
Matthew 6:22
The eyes don’t face north. All three face up on their limestone pillars of optic nerve. Two also face east into rebirth, one also south into the prevailing wind.
Cobwebs glisten between the pillars.
Gash marks denote the flecks of iris radiating into half-moons of [...]