Frank: sonnets

Machine generated contents note: [I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment] --

[The problem with sweetness is death] --

[Intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me] --

[I met a man a dying man] --

[It is abominable, unquenchable by touch] --

[Sometimes I can't feel it] --

[I could do it. I could walk into the sea] --

[Press a foot into this beach] --

[The best is when you respond] --

[From this bench I like to call my bench] --

[Poetry, the only father, landscape] --

[Here on this edge] --

[To return from Paradise] --

[What is it you feel, I asked Kurt] --

[Listening to "Summertime"] --

[There is a certain state of grace] --

["No need to sparkle"] --

[My earliest memory] --

[Since age three, I went looking] --

[Who wants to be soft? I don't] --

[I was raised in a rectangle] --

[I was not a large child] --

[Freak accidents do happen] --

[My first crush was Wild Bill Hickok] --

[They lived next door, four boys] --

[I suck so many cough drops] --

[I floated I flew I fell to Earth] --

[That bar, World of the Satisfyin' Place] --

[Labels now slip off me like clothes] --

[All at once David went catatonic] --

[I want drugs again; whimsy] --

[His body was barely cold] --

[The lambs this year are dumb] --

[One's got an eye thing] --

[When the lamb humped her leg] --

[After the pigs and lambs and rabbits] --

[The parents tried to build a little Eden] --

[The fat suffering of the farrowing sow] --

[The patriarch of Jesus Camp is dead] --

[It was a land without charm] --

[The White Rabbit was before] --

[They wander in, two Southdowns] --

[He came to us all the way down here with us] --

[For a couple years, I slept nights] --

[Once, I took a Greyhound north] --

[I have slept in many places] --

[My first night in New York] --

[I'm watching yl Face in the Crowd] --

[I can't rest, can't get no relief] --

[I should have been in cinema] --

[Parties among strangers] --

[There's something to be said for having] --

[Margaret Sanger did the first one] --

[I saw Robert Creeley] --

[The famous poets came for us] --

[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some] --

[I can't say I loved punk] --

[Thirty-nine years ago is nothing] --

[We all have our trauma nadir] --

[I aborted two daughters] --

[I fell on an incline, talus, tibia] --

[There is a force that breaks the body] --

[It's that time of spring] --

[OD'd on his Suboxone] --

[I hoisted them, two drug dealers] --

[Freelance artist. That's what you say] --

[How do you stand being so virtuous] --

[Where is the drug to drug] --

[Then, I account it high time to get to sea] --

[Which, he asks me, is your favorite story] --

[She's a big James Stewart fan] --

[Why would God be so mean, he asks] --

[Then when I grew up] --

[What do you think Elvis's best song was] --

[On what day do you think Jesus] --

[Maybe we wander] --

[I've lived with death from the beginning] --

[I fell in love with death] --

[I could do the love] --

[I've encountered the exoskeleton] --

[All lives have their tropes] --

[In the dream, my mother called my name] --

[I dreamed of it again, my dad's body] --

[I dreamed I had to find my way] --

[Goldenrod, I could say, you know] --

[How will I leave this life, like I left my job] --

[I dreamed a color, no plot, a color] --

[He called from San Francisco] --

[I want to zero in on what he looked like] --

[He said it bummed him out his dick] --

[I saw a little movie of a person stroking] --

[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial] --

[Death does not exist in poetry] --

[I was tethered to this Earth] --

[Abrupt lines on the nature of beauty] --

[Literature is dangerous business] --

[I wanted to be the boy in the book] --

[My literary tastes of late are manic] --

[Chekhov sits waiting for me] --

[Either all of this is an apparition or I am] --

[Mountains black today, hiding] --

[For twenty-six days I lived] --

[When I am away J miss] --

[It's a real Garden of Eden story] --

[And then landscape was all there was] --

[The emergent self is not a self that loves] --

[Takes time to get to minimalism] --

[All things now remind me] --

[Those days, if I consider them] --

[The world today is wet] --

[The small stuff, the care] --

[I can't see her clearly] --

[It won't kill me to be sad again] --

[I wish I still smoked] --

[The sonnet, like poverty] --

[My favorite scent is my own funk] --

[You know what living means] --

[Marry dull] --

[Lately I've been feeling about poetry] --

[Ever since Elise brought up] --

[My private parts are many] --

[Back then its hair was Cleopatraed] --

[To say that I'm a witch] --

[After forty years] --

[For me it's going to be] --

[I courted her, that musky tart] --

[My tits are bruised] --

[I hope when it happens].