In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey Horror Book Review

Sample Poems

Dictionary

As a small south american squirrel
inhabiting mostly mountainous regions
would feed on lizards half-way between
poles of the tropics, I too would fall
heartbreaked in the settlement of feuds
of the fields of kentucky.

When the moss grows high between the
perennials and disordered mimmocks weep,
these dainty fastidious gestating mammals
break for leavened bread and sup between
the rows of trees, lifting like friars
some heavy books in the sunlight’s morning
windows where the mollusks row in scion’s
quadragesimal phyla.

Found Text

The deer mistook their reflections for deer and the
deer mistook their reflections for other deer and the
deer apparently mistook their reflections for sheep
and what the deer mistook their reflections for isn’t
certain and the deer were removed from the scene,
being deer, before being removed and mistaking
reflections of the other deer for the sheep the deer
were removed and the deer deciding to join them
joined the deer having mistaken reflections of sheep
for the deer having mistaken reflections of sheep
for the deer in the plate glass windows.

The New Life

I eat steak and live on the big neon avenue and fear strangers, admire my
neighbors, the drug store, and the bus,

I was an addict live addicted to the avenue, in the dark folds late at night,
addicted to sleep and lavender,

I went into the liquor store to buy a bottle of wine, loving you and the
liquor store, the lavender bottles, the many directions.

PART TWO

Today I am rivets of sails in a log cabin where Jack
London lived in Alaska until they moved his cabin here
where we collect the change to buy our drinks and eat
the free hors d’oeuvres, where the neighbors are
somewhat pleased beside the railroad trains, where the
vague sense of the Union Pacific is with opssums of
freeways and you, where the airplanes fill the plastic sky, where
the fish are brightly colored on the lawn, where an
underwater bird is pummeled on the sidestreet, where we
take hallucinogens and wander through museums, where
the people construct the atificial ponds, where