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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Bipolar Star
Alone in the planetarium of memory, you scan the lights inside your cranial dome… a firmament of memories light-years off. Your broken mind tries hard to weave inchoate memories into...
Eidolon
On shards of broken terra cotta did I try to breed an absent self, Bore instead a limpet, bled you half to death in discourse And sought an igneous love...
Lost Ellen
You are cavitating, spinning outward, A blade without purchase, carving at a vacuum. I dance to your heartbeat and breathing. Your hands are on me, contiguous and light, like staghorn...
Prayer at Christmas
There is no weather here in this arid place of indecision, Only pathogens of fear, inchoate pain, erratic time and indeterminate light. Distill from us an image of ourselves. Lead...
Breathless
You are taking short, asphyxiating breaths. There is no air in you. I talk softly, aspirate you. Your lungs are full of what you have not said. You are not...
Be This Way
Be cold Forage and grow Haul wood and stone Go hungry Use handtools Be bold Raise children Cure food Walk without light Keep animals Grow old Adore someone Greet wildlife...
Leaving
In the ragtime of the mind Will you or I be left behind? You will ask a question, And how will I surround it? Like some hostile primitive And dance...
Weary Passion
I had a dream of savage tenderness That had us running east Through rocky woods to reach the shore. A fulgent winter light above, An urgent humid wind behind, But...
We do not fit
You look away. I know it's time. I feel the nascent fear that like a lesion spreads And darkens healthy tissue. I smother my resentment... a sad, quiescent rage, That...
Grass Dance
Subtle lesions of distrust Drain us like a mine-stained rill, Maculate us both. You trust me less. Panicked now, I hemorrhage words And try and cauterize your fears with heat....
A Question
Why do I need to tell you this? You do not take an easy leave. I storm your chill departure And like a starving mastodon Perhaps aware of eons ending,...
