Ken Zimmerman
Poetry
“the space between a sleepwalker’s outheld arms” Bill Knott
Carpenter Ant Hatch, Spring 1991
Carpenter Ant Hatch, Spring 1991 Once the decision is taken, it isn't hard to kill them. I watch one clutch the body of another in its pincers, carrying it toward home. But I don’t let it escape. Yesterday, one of the huge flying males bit me savagely on the...
Lessons in the Cards
While my father was teaching me the cold calculus of chance…
Doe in the Yard
watching her I think I feel a little like James Wright with those two ponies…
Leaffall- for EM
Today Steven next door is splitting kindling again…
Substitution
Coming to work early you meet the man on shift before you….
EKG
The doctors in their white smocks hover like priests over the hieroglyphic lines…
Notes
On language: our sixth sense is made out of words…
Fossil
We looked hard, but none of us could remember the exact spot.
The Opposite
the image won’t reveal its source anonymous author of my dreams.