Passions of a Thief
Rain is music
When it’s not yet here.
Window, what have you done?—
Tercets for a lost carryon
Or passions of a thief?
When you reimagine yourself
Downwind, the silence is
Everywhere
Now & then, without algebra
Or some sort of flickering.
Sometimes, bureaucrats are hardest hit
Without any humdrum awakening.
This message is approved by thunder.
How far does it go?
As far as you care, however you know
At night with love
Askew
In the thrill of awful means
Where angels in granite
Decide
What we mean.
Mark DuCharme’s newest collection is Thousands Blink Outside, just out from C22 Open Editions. Other recent publication include Here, Which Is Also a Place from Unlikely Books; Scorpion Letters from Ethel; and his work of poet’s theater, We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film, from The Operating System. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as BlazeVOX, Caliban Online, Colorado Review, Eratio, First Intensity, Gas, Indefinite Space, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Spinozablue, Talisman, Typo, Unlikely Stories, Utriculi, Word/ for Word, The Writing Disorder, and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. A recipient of the Neodata Endowment in Literature and the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, he lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.