Daniel E haislet

Category: Poems

  • 2am on a concrete bench in the CCSO horseshoe 

    2am on a concrete bench in the CCSO horseshoe 

    outside a man with a wannabe cop cut high and tight on his neck

  • That kid thinks in simple sentences

    That kid thinks in simple sentences

    toddler has sandstorm tongue | 
toddler is moon light | 
dying on the century plant |

  • i-40 between needles and kingman

    i-40 between needles and kingman

    i entered this desert | with you | a voyeur | as a cool morning in june | tapered toward midday | when we found a wide spot | for a piss

  • ars ratio : ars poetica

    ars ratio : ars poetica

    too much talk | of tomorrow is sunday’s | chemical piss-sunrise | on an allnighter | running dead east | into monday morning and | my boys need something more | like hope I real- | ize this is a hope-poem |

  • how grief is like water in grace-shaped glass

    how grief is like water in grace-shaped glass

    Warning! This poem was inspired by notes in my journal that I wrote while I sat with my dad in hospice.

  • bob mapplethorpe’s ansel adams dream

    bob mapplethorpe’s ansel adams dream

    patti smith keeps me company
jesus died for somebody’s sins
it’s just right god-damnit

  • Scene Without Adverbs

    Scene Without Adverbs

    Its Saturday The way I’ve remembered it An otherwise perfect Saturday

  • Dragonfly

    Dragonfly

    Wondered if they buried you in those clothes 
you borrowed from Shaggy’s closet. 
You never returned them.

  • Suttee

    Suttee

    I love finding words I don’t know
Tragic words like suttee
Plural satis

  • A Long Memory Which Begins in 1995

    A Long Memory Which Begins in 1995

    Out of money, exiled to the ballfields on the Rio de Flag. 
Rio? A drainage ditch where the older kids jumped mountain bikes.