We Were Hateful People
is a collection of poems that traces five interweaving stories, or perhaps one story in five parts.
A man from a faraway land meets an impossible woman on an island.
this town is small / and full of curves and hills and rises
A man falls in love; a creative union forms, followed by marriage.
the night is an orgasm on wheels / festooned with dirt and peonies
A man faces the sound and the fury of his own mind, and another's.
everything can collapse at any moment / th moist brown earth opens up & eats you
A man and a woman suffer; a marital union dissolves creatively.
th wife coils into a snake / th mind coils into a snake
A man uses his poetic craft to make the island his own.