"Were 'In Memoriam' written in direct quatrains, I think the effect would grow to be unendurable." --Edmund Clarence Stedman, Victorian Poets (1889)

The Next Mona Lisa?


"crapu"

deserted intersection at night
far from home
waiting for the light

thieves arrive in my sleep
and a halo
around the moon

the walls shiver
shimmer
i have nothing

but this moment to hold
thieves
take it as i watch