Author Archives: ayaladn

while I was whistlin’ Waterloo at Srinagar, a crowd within a congerie made mockery — what was I to do — yes, twigs to choose & further stones to sit upon, but, will they stay put…

‘a glimpse of stocking’ this side of those, everything glows — ‘tho I’m not sick yet, nor even thickset, shall I quickstep over holes or on the poles — & if your rockets are bottl’d (O stop it) ‘I suppose, but what are those’ — unpaid tickets, designer lipstick, & ‘morrows’ pick –Yes, I’d tip-toe,Continue reading “Cell V”

here, we all agree, it isn’t easy so, to pack a pair o’ stilts on a burro’er the plains, unless you leaf a parasol at Hannibal Crossing & all that power’d horn — what to do — I’ll center so & cartwheel city walls on bargain days asleep, & overrun them looking for corundum onContinue reading “Curio”

he’s glued himself to the floor — I would use a crowbar but the neighbor won’t return it, only broken glass, to chip at by moonlight; nonetheless, I’m careful near his tongue, & he’s barefoot — who knew he had twelve toes; now he’s good

lying where the ceiling was the floor, I was told we were there, although I was alone — as strange no dust collect the lintel- would-be stoop made to stop a flood — the boy above the floor, I never heard him walk