Gillian Conoley


Sean Penn Is In Iran

hydra-headed driver. afternoon, she said.

dusty soldiers, tan shoes,

                                    clouds demons ghosts cottoning on them
someway, looking for something he.   fortune's

fickle turn and goddess blind

who wheels upon a restless rock, a desert's confectioner's sugar,

                      clouds         ghosts

                      sun fire's reflection's    green jasper

and rolls and spins
into inconstant goddesses of succour—

everyone loves

organic compounds, inorganic compounds

a compass a plexiglass Protractor—
in sand a car's

sound goes and goes     a hemispheric grease

handy man wants job.     small wages.       will eat anything.



Gillian Conoley is the author of Profane Halo , Lovers in the Used World , Beckon, Tall Stranger and Some Gangster Pain . She is poet-in-residence and professor at Sonoma State University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt.