Santa Maria della Vittoria
The church is a window to another
world that asks me to shut out the rest
of Rome and step into the 15th century
stories in marble and stone
telling of the thorns, the bones,
offering proof—the heart, the left
sh [...]
First they are color,
words for blue:
inkblot,
blueprint,
held breath,
innocent eyes,
blood in the vein,
lapis lazuli,
new bruise,
madder blue,
charged peacock,
pills beside the bed,
or words for green:
bottle glass,
boa,
camouflage, [...]
Santa Fe Speedway
No one's here for the polite processional
and so we cheer the sudden end of protocol
when drivers rev their souped-up engines
in a look-at-me strut,
firing as unpredictably as love.
Slowly t [...]
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