Category: Poetry

Hauntings (Woman, Boy, Body)

A Haunting (Woman, Body) His death came first as an aching in her molars, then a numbness in her sinuses, then, finally, a filling up of her dreams with something warm and sharp and spit-pink. A room full of flowers, … Read More

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Little Green Men

To the all inclusive
Package. To the car
And the driver.

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Elegy

Imagine horses at night, their terrible heat. A field torn open by hooves.   Or slumbering in a great circle. Hair. Haunch. Lilacs moaning in the dark.   Fires moaning in the dark. Morning gropes like a mound of hands. … Read More

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The Other Woman is left in the cold

“Never dipped one toe into water, but sipped juice on a hilltop.”

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Ode to a Faraway Maiden

“I turned into a constellation, fathomed into form /
By your dispassionate gaze.”

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Anatomy of a Bleeding Heart

“The aorta / Is a warzone within my chest / Where I bleed out for the genocide of my ancestors”

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6 Poems

making room

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Au

Last night I ingested my mother’s gold in hopes it would bring value to every worthless part of my body   I brought her bangles to my teeth and bit them so hard I drew blood holding them under my tongue … Read More

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Rouse

Dearest Cynthia, / What could I offer you / that would drag you / from this cardboard crypt / you’ve contaminated with your presence? / Oh, Cynthia.

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Sun-Dance

Pee-poem.

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The Subway Car

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

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How the Dark Howls

“The same desperate anger which buried them there, / Lumbers over the horizon again”

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