c 2006, 33 pages.
"I woke in a grove to a crack of gunfire..."
6x6, staple-bound.
cover art by kate schapira.

Afterlife Ending as a Question


The world began in wrong. The clouds
prove this by their leniency. As grace
disturbs our sentiment for violence

so the bush lays its ambush of lilacs.
The shortness of the fuse is what

we must suppose God meant
for us to love. Let all songs

shorten the fuse, then
defuse it.

What is love but a negative collaboration?