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Rubble

August 10, 2017March 27, 2020 jbrglndLeave a comment

Rubble   Indolent days spent consuming history intentions and rubble strewn with careful purpose prepared me Pope-stolen marble Tracing the death of a language in churches erected on destruction   Carry the cross and drape the flag An idea long denied, impossible now  sanctioned A Borgia for America   Fear, pettiness, vainglory The liberation of hate  … Continue reading Rubble

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August

August 3, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

August is the ending days. The weight of rain thick air straitjacket thunder dampering sounds Slow days of fading liberty

poetry

forced anomie

June 13, 2017June 15, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

moving slowly through crowds hobbled by abundance an energetic loss of balance a happy absence of comfort   unfamiliar details stare rudely a cornice chipped and dirty a door that doesn’t quite shut window lead neglected, maybe just unspecial   passing stores charity shop says one next, communion shop and then Fine Suits all selling… Continue reading forced anomie

poetry

mortar and tuff

May 23, 2017May 24, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

looking up between the ruins for stars swirling from the wine     even in the heat i can feel the chill from the concrete enough to kill some nameless salt-mine bastard come winter   Layers of lives most as discrete from one another as they are from us serene   to be like the vandal unconcerned… Continue reading mortar and tuff

poetry

The Lilacs

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

wrapping,  roiling, fogging the porch a thick and  heady murmur obscure and weighty memories of a child’s giggle the spring abides the sinews of reference, of context strain life proceeds

poetry

Big Feet

May 12, 2017May 14, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

a stair a misstep a frailer me floating in air surprised body free the moment awaits dancing in the nothing forever

poetry

Rain

April 10, 2017April 15, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

Kay required me to be still hard as it was when I was little be still and listen when it rained and hear it in the trees, bending the leaves, darting off the cars. Making a  soft splat on the sidewalk And sussurance  in the grass. Not just the ordinance of thunder but the tremors… Continue reading Rain

songs

Forgetting

February 7, 2017February 10, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

Forgetting you It’s a very simple thing to do It’s  just will,  some time apart, finding something new   Forgetting it all A couple of weeks, just one fall Promises never kept, just some  unreturned calls   Forgetting your face There’s no moment or special place It was a small café,  your  smile, a kiss,… Continue reading Forgetting

fiction

Ekphrasis (working)

February 6, 2017May 17, 2017 jbrglndLeave a comment

\ Because of money that he only nominally deserved and the existence of which gave him embarrassment, J. has become, obliquely,  a cheap son of a bitch. But confronted with the long line in front of the art museum on a cold  morning, he decides to buy an annual membership rather than wait. After all … Continue reading Ekphrasis (working)

published poems

Poems from Opus 22, 1983

November 10, 2016May 15, 2017 jbrglndImageLeave a comment

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