Category: Poetry

camelot (2021, elastane)

“you were always guinevere /
and jfk, and i arthur of the cul-de-sac”

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Effect of Fog

“I can’t wake up from the things I wanted– / I can’t ever bring myself to come clean.”

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Voyage

“Yesterday evening, / life coalesced in rain: dripping streetlights, storefronts reflected / onto glossy black pavement. Liquid incandescence.”

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The Subway Car

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

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In Princeton with You

“Your clothes are spilling from their drawers / It seems I’d rather stay indoors / When I’m in Princeton with you.”

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Once Kin

“Now / she / shrouds / her / s k e l e t o n / in / oversize / d / sweatshirts.

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Gingko Leaves

“All / Cicero said we need is a library and a garden, so I’ll keep / little brown pots on the windowsills.”

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Night-Blooming Flowers

“The sharp tenderness of Night’s long sigh / leaves the drunken hawk moths / dizzied from delight.”

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Christ, Sympathea

“Every door was a chilling / tile of a mosaic / made of the sins / we have yet to commit.”

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On My Way to You

“Are you there yet? Hello, dear. I’m on / my way, lost myself at the intersection /
between the bottomless sea and the swan / that wanders between the traffic lanes.”

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Family

“so entwined /they appeared /one fruit / blossoming from / the green earth”

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35 Ways to Say “I think I could love you but I can’t tell you yet”

“It’s like this: carving rivers into your palm lines./How many times I’ve tried to wipe tears with remnants of the sky.”

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