I always feared that things
would end badly between us

is too much with me daylong and
in my dreams my mind is invaded

Egon Schiele knew that he was two people

is visible to the sculptor
but it is invisible to me

are such an orderly race

My theory that the people on both sides
of the mountain range were Brabers is a-

In the films when the couples kiss
they grind their lips together as

Rilke writes of the expectation
that a beloved is about to ap-

Remembering Nabokov

 A dark damp night and a sudden hatch
of moths has covered the glass of the

The ritual of the poem in praise of you
demands the vision of a goddess   an ap-