did you think that when they magnetize
my molecules, i would forget you? it's not
going to happen, not even when the
incomplete moon kneads me into
shadows on the MRI
and fog rises from the interior of my brain.

magnetic resonance turns bodies into maps
that retrieve lost loved ones. did you know that?
rivers, mountains, time zones are no obstacle...

inside my head when the magnets clank
a moth will flutter its striped wings.
i'll listen to your voice through memory's keyhole,
everything under control like canned sardines.

besides.no matter how my eyes may see things,
their outcome does not depend on my emotions.
no reason to blame the weather
for whatever is in my head...

this is life--forever on the point of no return,
forever in a process of losing our treasures.
yet in our magnetic resonance,
you and i are images

caught in the light

1. an acoustic neuroma is not musical equipment
2. my fortune cookie had two fortunes--
3. the first said When in doubt, just take the next
small step.
4.  the second said When the moment comes, take
the first one from the right.
5.  the moon is a door opening on dreams
6.  twilight is thrashing some loitering shadows
7.  today's news is like congealed grease on a plate
8. every morning i tidy up the room as if meticulously rearranging
the landscape after death
9.  i was born naked into my dying day
10. we stand in deep shadow at the beginning and end of time
11. you need a good heart and a strong stomach to enter my umwelt
12. in summer, poplars applaud each breeze
13. an old tree, having missed the season of blossoms, enters dusk
at the horizon
14. we are fated to be together like canned sardines,
bone against bone
until our dying day
15. but never meet
16.words short into silence
17.my heart feels heavy as if witnessing a wedding
unable to consider its own ending
18. i have loved well
19. i have no regret
20. i have a beautiful smile even though it's splintered into a thousand pieces