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The Tree No One Knows
I know this tree. Bare and thin like the air I breathe. I can see it shining on my night sky, like a star. The January breeze passes through its transparency as if it wasn’t there at all, but soon...
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Some Variations On Time
Time changing faces. Unfamiliar, clumsy time. Eavesdropping time listening through walls. Nosey time asking personal questions. Bullying time pushing you around. Sarcastic time in your face. Time with...
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Tongues
when you can’t speak the language it’s like absolution your conscience swept clean of nouns and infinitives you hear only the song of it guttural, geminate, trill trick of longitude and latitude...
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Perpetuity
for it is impossible for anything to come to be from what is not, and it cannot be brought about or heard of that what is should be utterly destroyed – Empedocles Lavoisier and friends teased eternity...
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The Graduate
Some people are taught how to write Framed parchment, fancy script hanging pretentiously above cherry wood roll top desks brimming with pomp and circumstance They write villanelles about summer sunsets...
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THE MOON ONLY RISES (After MEI YAO CHEN)
Night unfolds like a skein of silk. But its beauty brings me no relief. The stars are so far away, they can give no warmth or compassion. The moon feels no grief. I understand death when we are old and...
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Clay
The waves once crashed at my beckon call. The sun hid in the gray matter of the sky and dared not to show itself. No bird cast shadow no matter how high their flight. This globe would be wonderful...
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Excavations
Whatever it was, I'd go first. You made me close my eyes and eat things out of your hand. There are stories where that's cute, but not when it's earthworms and hearts. We grew up scarecrows spooning,...
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Feeling Bad About the Names We Gave
I know your suicide like the start of a drumroll, the smell of rotting stars in my pockets rolling around between fingers. The wind played the holes in your body brutally, a soldier trudging through...
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The Debtors’ University
A DROLL FROM THE ROARING GIRL The debtors’ university is such a refined hierarchy; you start off posh, the Master’s Ward, and say, ‘Pish, this is not so hard’; arriving with a trunk of goods, it’s like...
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It is 2 AM and I am boiling
In the shower, I scald my skin hard and red, like the crabs my uncles would throw into pots of bubbling water, Burns beget steam and I smell my grandpa’s cigarettes, smoke blurring the air like here,...
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Over the Water
There is nothing better than a revolution when the nobility of foolish dreams lulls a city to sleep her history always repeats and she has walked beside him for the longest time Two brothers share a...
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Metal
We are selling the metal that kills so we can afford the spoons that feed our children; then killing them with the metal that we’ve just sold feeding them with the blood on the spoons from happy meals....
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Putting Words On Paper
What’s so special about putting words on paper? You can write things down and forget about them later. What does it take to get that special combination, that specific group of words to make someone...
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A hurt that moves beyond crying or a love beyond touch, maybe a song beyond sound. But I can swallow it; I can feel the sound of your remnants of breathing down in my mouth—thousands of days and cherry...
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Slide And Dry
The dried paint, long since atomized from cylindered source, once bled in brief runnels upon the steel, upon the brick and concrete, graffito to graffito then finally graffiti and jagged votes of the...
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Highlight
The girl who is not one for words keeps them tucked in her back pocket against her lower back, pooling star glitter into milk dimples. Her hips, thick, full of pelvis, crash into the bop-hop on my...
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I Had Forgotten How to Love You
Opening Pandora’s box stirred dead emotions. Vices were confronted, anger was released. Facing my son’s caring ways reflected just how far I strayed. My unfettered heart revealed the truth. I had...
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Universe by Statistical Chance
Here child, is the big bang in fast motion A handful of sand thrown into the air Grains in orbit and systems in clusters And an increasingly diffuse outer rim Surrounded by a vast mysterious void Some...
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Majority Rule
In the twilight of my life, I dreamed of a twinkling pixie that purged the world of puerile words and wanton deeds. At first, there weren’t symptoms, things seemingly intact. And then the world stopped...
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