Category: Poetry

Prisoners

“The road unreels beside us, / Slicing the moonshade.”

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Apostasia

“Scramble the words you have been saving / for me”

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Earthside

“i want you to know that we: / cried for you”

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Road Trip, A History

“Pools of trees, untamed, contained, broke free into ocean forests / circled above by lonesome eagles.”

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Tending

“Or maybe you are stuck staring at the sun, a gap / in the clouds, a yolk poked and spreading in the sky.”

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Summer Survival Guide

“If you have ever had a mango, / Have another / And another.”

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The Man in My Oven

“maybe he is going to march / across our room and pull the / pins out of my heart”

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Joy

She shrivels in a spotlight or a gaze, / shy in all her glory, / scared off by expectation.

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Theresa

Woman, I love you.

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To My Children, Dear and Loving

“If ever two were one, then I’m a tree that never gleans / ancient wisdom from fresh dirt’s acetylene.”

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Dushi Kòrsou (Sweet Curaçao)

“Sand flew as troupials in the far / field / While the bells of the time had not / spoken”

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New York

“We fall in love with the / strangers we pass / because they are whoever / we want them to be.”

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