Category: Poetry

Chiral

Perhaps strange, perhaps vague… How things can break and almost mend themselves, A little strange. How we succeed ourselves. Pioneers barely dominate infinitely As Parthenon becomes a Laurel and laurels become…. Become. Franchise, monetize….value nothing is immutable. On the verge … Read More

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Letter from Lia Beach

For the island has harpooned me.

For the day will not end.

For salt-drunk I swam to an underwater cave and saw clear through but the sea pressed me and I turned.

For I am glad you could not see me clamber onto the stone beach, awkward as a palsied horse and naked but for goggles.

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(A Poem)

An untitled work.

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Cinema

‘This feels like a movie,’ I said./’Yeah?’ you laughed./You never understood/your role.

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Ding dong… hello?

“Go back to work, you miscreant.”

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Nostalgia Architects

“With too much text to see or read, / I imagine the storm of a thousand paper cranes.”

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Corpse Diem

We will all be worm food
So fuck each other wildly

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The Subway Car

“Jacob and / the angel / jostling in the / subway car”

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Untitled

Am I silos, still as daybreak?

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How to Live in a Single

“5. Spot your ex-roommates on campus. Remember their erratic sleep patterns, what they looked like in the mornings. The sounds of their alarms. They’ll ask, how’s the single? You say, great…”

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After throwing your cigarettes out

I took a bus home to your nightly reenactments, the ones performed before you ever hid your lighters or begged for air. My blood’ll sort it out, you promised, ignoring London and your heredity, all those veils of ash and … Read More

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On Everlasting

She sits a widowed star beyond the rest, And whispers of the final kiss. Entrances souls who chance to look With promise of eternal bliss.   She glared in through the eyes, and saw We lack it in our minds, … Read More

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