Poetry

La Madrugada

Leave the machete in the manchineel. break the ox’s neck. it’s approaching. body of water turned thunder farmland twisted into…

6 years ago

Cosset

you’re formless, curled but limb-bound in fluid and minerals, enzymes and code as we place our hands on your crib…

6 years ago

I Suppose This Bout of Mania Is Over

because a bird chirrups & I wonder              if animals know / what they cry for or if they simply              …

6 years ago

Self-Elegy as Abel’s Brother

The mouth of a father disappears into the mouth of a son, and that day my own mouth disappeared into…

6 years ago

First Brazil Nut After Several Years Of Avoiding Them Because Of Their High Levels Of Radiation

Let me at them, devil's batteries or toxic scarabs though they be, leeching from strata of Chernobyls and Pompeiis or…

6 years ago

We were talking about guns

we were talking about guns at the luncheon after bill jrs father had died

6 years ago

Prayer with Torn Fingernails

Inside the cedar drawer, you are the mineral memory. The claw hammer’s steel scent-stain. Each moth-wing corner – a place…

6 years ago

The Inquisitor’s Parrots

When Columbus returned to Spain, he gifted two parrots to Queen Isabella. History cannot tell us how long it took…

6 years ago

The County Judge

The Russian poet S Frug took it as the subject of an epic: Or else your God appears to have…

6 years ago

John Henry’s 8 Feet Tall, 3 Ton Statue Has Been Moved for Its Own Safety

I believe in the myth of Napoleon shooting cannons at the Sphinx because I believe every story about a white…

6 years ago

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