Colin James has a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts.

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The Circular Ruin’s Tenuous Tendencies Emasculated Our Vacation Forever

The cramping began                                                                                                                                              in the living quarters
with re-creation cliches.
Little sensibility ensued.
Windowless, not even a peep hole
for look who's here,
come to steal our women.
And later at night, mice
scurrying in the rafters then
all over our fat chance faces.

Flacourtia, The Governor’s Plum

The contradictions of touch.
The modern take,
what you can, you will,
what you will, you cannot.
limped and
lisped thus.
Better to
prepare the ground
before planting.
A receptive
sandy soil is best.
Drainage should never
be overlooked.
Sun and shade are both
presumptive of lust.