Three Excerpts from Common Time: Excerpt 1 | Excerpt 2 | Excerpt 3

Excerpt 3 from Common Time

When seeking something,

we often encounter Aristotle’s aphorism
in which our failure to achieve something

is a failure of will rather than something innate.

Like finding pot ‘if I really wanted to, I could,’
when ‘could’; is a term
incongruous with the figure speaking it.

It was a shirt
that read ‘travesty’
rather than being a travesty.

I’ll be the judge of every Winnebago.

And from the clouds emerges a ship
from the ink which is
the tattoo which is the image
of something punted.

Rule number one in the city: you never just *throw* yourself down on a patch of grass.

The rubber band sits on the counter, fastening nothing.

(Originally published in Zoland Poetry)