Poetry

What Sticks

This is not a poem of leaving                those velveteen branches or that frowning hedge at the yard’s edge. This is…

4 years ago

White Center, 1950

The figs, arranged in                still life,               as if by Chardin’s                   quiet violence;                          the house exists to hold them. Bruised bodies beaded         dark wet,…

4 years ago

Chitin Diaries

    The kitchen full of babies roosting on high shelves like cups for punch one by one she pinches…

4 years ago

Vulgar Magic

    We could live suspicious, breathing to bleed—but my mouth had nothing for strange quiet. I was too much,…

4 years ago

Fathermark

    I.          Unmedicated visionary, full-time armchair operator— he could turn a truckbed of scrap lumber          to a hen house squared-up enough…

4 years ago

Dinner Table

We fill the void behind our teeth with silence, the grinding of wedding rings against knife handles a language of…

4 years ago

in praise of a night of perdition

& what do we say to the boy                    digging the sand to find his love?…

5 years ago

To Say I Means Alone

Emma and I drunk     took a bath     swimming as a sloppy fish on another night that we’d never recall in full detail.…

5 years ago

self portrait as asa akira’s face on google images when searching ‘asian women’

MY LINEAGE ETCHED IN PIXELS MY BODY TRANSLATED TOO MUCH FOR ANOTHER MAN’S EYES I LIVE UP TO MY STEREOTYPE,…

5 years ago

Eve, creator

[wc_row][wc_column size="two-third" position="first"] Half a day’s pushing couldn’t shove me into the world, so they snipped me from her stalk.…

5 years ago

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