By: James Parker

“Who’s onscreen? Pull him up. It’s Jason Bourne.”

By: James Parker

“You said the wrong/right thing and his face went stony”

By: James Parker

“Economical huffings,/elbow-strikes and de-handcuffings.”

By: James Parker

“It bloats the franchise./It increases its pantsize.”

By: James Parker

Watching the JASON BOURNE trailer.

By: James Parker

“One day a death squad comes for her.”

By: James Parker

“This one is dead as the grass./Let him pass, let him pass.”

By: James Parker

“You take off at a flat gallop./Trees snatch at the light as you pass, and then — wallop!”

By: James Parker

“What are the implications for mental health/of being an amnesiac super-functional self?”

By: James Parker

“Clammy with questions, he blundered around/and I took him without a sound.”

By: James Parker

“It’s Langley again, the goddamn CIA,/whom you are obliged to inform that Jason Bourne just got away.”

By: James Parker

“Alaska, Alone” — a BOURNE poem by James Parker