The Geometric Lover — A Poetry Chapbook from 1991

“The Geometric Lover” is a poetry and photography chapbook from 1991. It needs any edits still here (as it went through some further drafts and I need to find those old notes / files somewhere) but, for now, here is the 1991 presentation of it. All photos herein are original, taken in the Wilkes-Barre, PA area at that time.

The Geometric Lover

Part 1: Train Dream

Track one, two, three — Wilkes-Barre bound.
Cars sweep by me so quickly:
Boxcars, and those new round
Chemical cars like rusty sausages with
Ladders and wheels. Small sulfuric
Decals pass my window, too quick
To read: ‘ide and ‘ate are the
Only chemical endings I can catch.
Cars pass by, blurry as smoke-stack smog.
Rust is predominant.

I stare through the glass in this passenger car
And can’t say if it is a dream or a
Vision, but it is here that I am
Acquainted with a lady who I am
Compelled to call The Geometric Lover.
She is outside and tells me how
Train tracks and boxcars are her soul.
Structures…, she says in the manner of
Beginning some great poem. Then
She…