Suppose the items you left behind were put on display. Texture and touch concealed by glass. Images of you and others framed and hung up…
Poetry
Provincial Love 1
Like falling while seated: hoping in unfair rails or else not taking me to you. Due either to contrition or to stability. But do you…
Happy Place (Losing My Best Friend)
I peered through the window And watched her below She sat on the floor of the shower Not aware of the hour On this night…
only the tongue did not freeze a soft death so back to different climates possible but lost in the clear embarrassment stubborn clumsy aware …
The Pit
“Does the eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the mole: Can wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or…
Learning to Count
215 a minivan in Baghdad painted Ramadan streets manslaughter red and mothers wait for their children wait for their children mothers wait. 20 handsome…
You asked me what had happened and then where we were going. I told you at this point that there was nothing left to do…
I’m lying on the ship’s skin with the fine salt in a wind embrace. I am lying on metal plates encrusted with rust and salt…