I used to call home

hoping to get the machine

enjoying her voice

--Jane Hilbrands

it is time for this
university to go
away laughs Paola

--17 July 2015, when the phone system malfunctioned

high-rise apartments
modernist utopia
don't want to live here

-- 15 July 2015 in Creteil, the suburb of Paris where I've been working this summer

Saw a stuffed weasel
at the flea market today
couldn't ask how much
-- May 2015, Rue de Bretagne

Chopin's candle burns
Rossini's tomb is larger
but candle is out

--23 May 2015

Oscar Wilde's gravesite
covered with lovers' kisses
on all tourist maps

--23 May 2015

swirling from nowhere
the sky opposed to color
coats everything white

--Denver, 25 March 2015