At the gate they ask for your union card. They ask for a fact sheet. You must have it in writing. At the border.  At the red sign take warning. …

The electorate has spoken. We will be governed. In the ballot, in the road. Here is the school, the church, the bright red convenience store. Meet under the sign, my …

From:  The world To:  Notification   From:  Night train to wisdom To:  B.A. awarded to sensory data   From:  Mackinac Island covered with rain To   Voice, always voice   …

You exist for days on end in a thick blue sweatshirt. This keeps politicians away from the door.  The world is at bay.  The world keeps coming back. The world …

Whereas, says the scribe of the beautiful hand. Whereas, shall the people answer. The document could last forever or until tomorrow.  Surely the sun will rise again. You can track …

Fill the bowls at once. Measure air, measure water. Breathing, if you can count. Test color.  Words bounce off the surface.  No one ever understood sound. What enters the ear. …

His life reads the same backwards and forwards.  All the letters fall into place.  The single word comes to him in a dream. Now it can be named, the vertiginous …

Smell is the one. You can grasp the salt- stung sea edge.  Find the beloved’s hair across any room.  Rub five-petalled cinquefoil until your nose is yellow under Arctic sun. …

The rabbit huddles motionless against the blocks under the house. Carrots do not tempt it. It is so cold nothing can move. Here on earth, time is measured and clear. …