Shane McCrae

My house, my bed, my husbands —Savages   O dream   I live in which I dream Whose dreams   I have and failing tried Not harming them to live inside Too often making   like a pet dog sudden- ly unfamiliar killing a wild rabbit en- raged for no reason ...

In Heaven nobody will be alone In Heaven   except for me and nobody   Nobody calls    nobody comes My nobody expands across the country   The way a parachute expands across The sky   it does if you’re right under ...

The hastily assembled angel watches From the air he watches  from that point in the air Where years from now the apex of the pyra- mid he is watching being  built will be Invisibly  he watches as slaves roll Huge stones from the quarry to the pyramid the Slave who ...