Category: Poetry

highs and lows

“i swallowed your lies / and they came back up as tears”

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A Trilogy of Poems About English Mountain, Tennessee

“The cemetery pointed the old Dutch pharaohs / Toward their heaven.”

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Review of DISIAC’s HEADLINES

A poetic assessment of a student dance group.

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Persimmons of another tree: a transfem’s song of love and rejuvenation

“When I say room I mean this space that contains me. / When I say this space that contains me I mean I fill this space. / When I say I fill this space I mean this space is my body.”

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Contrasts

“stars and stripes / color the flag of my birth country / and I am found buried in the pages / of its history”

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Ex Post Facto

“…I’ve become a spy for mankind.”

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To cleanse

“I consider cleaning it / But a marble pattern of the last remnants of you is reassuring to stare down at ”

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On Orange Juice

“…poetry ploughshares tombstones and headstones and footstones and no-stones, makes suffering beautiful and tasty…”

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Ding dong… hello?

“Go back to work, you miscreant.”

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Nature’s Favorite Hue

“When are you going to honor the body that grips your soul, and bask in being whole?”

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The N is Not Silent

“My name commands the full tongue, the breath of a whole lung”

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ON WAR AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

“the human can only know themselves to be human /
because we condemn the three dimensions /
of our thoughts”

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