I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.