fettuccine all‘uovo No94 (the carbonara poem) our pasts lay desiccated tangled pasta nests in glassine windows waiting to be saline, salient, pliable grist as coal miners we emerge from black dust; yo
Stump branches with inflamed apples sag over the backyard fence I leave a metal pail beside your shoes one week later still a folded ladder buried in red rot I sift through the tree for an
raisins the best is a raisin sandwich (the honey doesn’t count) it’s in the press of raisins the soft fold of bread if I had a brother he’d christen it rabbit-turd munch burping a beer if my sister ha