Daniel E haislet

Tag: America

  • 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 |

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Capitalism

    Capitalism

    Anyway. Always the same stock. 
Kalil Gibran in dozens 
and not a single Jean Valentine. 


  • Saguaro Wind and the Age of Information

    Saguaro Wind and the Age of Information

    The birds better come up with something better 
Before the idiot birds reach the Mojave 
Before their bleached bones dust the saguaro wind