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Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Last Communion of an Island Dog
Last Communion of an Island Dog I died today or yesterday of fleas and famine – sooner both, but consciousness and hunger haunt my rest. I fought life hard, bore...
Fawn in Headlights
Fawn in Headlights You will never again be this alone or alive, Near your mother lying dead in the breakdown lane, And you in the travel lane, trying to stand...
I am not with you now
I guess what I would say to you is this... If you lie down beneath a tree and touch yourself, I still won't be there, nor will love. The tree...
Childrens’ Songs
Whose children are these... These timorous anticipants of pain, Swaddled young in circumjacent rolls of fat Waddling sullen through our lives? What have we done to them That they must...
Leyte Gulf
On a coral reef you lay to die and breathless lay there eye to eye With rippling morays where they hide in turbid currents deep inside of Leyte Gulf. Did...
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...
