A Categories Poetry June, 2018 A vignette from a town of triumph I looked through a pinhole in an antiquated room with an inverted umbra of an aged easterly spire, the mysterious upside-down shadow had me consumed..
T Categories Poetry June, 2018 The Faucet The faucet in our kitchen is getting old I had touched it When we came to see the apartment The first one of our married..
B Categories Poetry June, 2018 Blue Hue This poem won the first prize in the poetry competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
G Categories Poetry May, 2018 Garden of the Restless Martyrs ceramic mustard and ivory shells cradled in fruit skins and ashes once we were doll heads and now we are only ourselves we seem to..
J Categories Poetry May, 2018 Jane Doe Just a few broken bits of bone Some scraps of cloth and a hair or two Marked and placed in plastic bags Is all that..
t Categories Poetry May, 2018 the eclipse and the exorcism It began then, during the ten wet nights of red crabs clawing at the moon, a nymph that had just drowned in a maelstrom; the..
S Categories Poetry May, 2018 Street Lamp When the opaque dusk swells, The broken street lamp’s Pearlescence of glass shards, Overshadows the warmth of light bulb The night is the unsung..
I Categories Poetry May, 2018 I set out to paint the light I set out to paint the light when it grows soft at summer’s end, but could not wrap my thoughts around the immensity of neglect..
A Categories Poetry April, 2018 Aleppo grief in weeks nothing has moved me. i chase something and fail. the screen dries my eyes. no rivers flow in Aleppo...
E Categories Poetry April, 2018 Elfie, Sheltie, Sallie, Shellie, Self* Author’s Note: The title of this poem is attributed to the spelling suggestions one gets, when having typed: Selfie in Microsoft Word. This is also..
F Categories Poetry March, 2018 Fox Harbor for SB This is the most you’ve ever been a child. Once there was sand, thick saltwater paste on legs capable of anything; then, later..
Y Categories Poetry Translations March, 2018 YERE YERE PAUSA Yere yere pausa Come to me rain, let the drops percolate, collect in plastic tubs drained through pipes made of dreams and denim Tula..
N Categories Poetry February, 2018 North of Longing, South of Hope I. every night you turn on the lights in the room he has left behind on another continent he buys a pack of almonds for..
I Categories Poetry February, 2018 I guess a pleasant night might be appraised in different ways I guess a pleasant night might be appraised in different ways A dazzle of days running under a tram While the horses bolt And the..
B Categories Poetry January, 2018 BEGINNINGS All of the gin joints in all of the towns and you had to walk into this one* Beginnings don’t flow as easily as they..
T Categories Poetry January, 2018 The Dreams of Tiny Things The birds outside my window speak of world domination, the tiny gray sparrows have staked out my kitchen for the headquarters of their aggressive, bird-centric..
M Categories Poetry January, 2018 MAKING PRINTS “What was it like—-being married to Mick Jagger?” – (American journalist) “I had to be a hell of a whore in the bedroom.” – Jerry..
Y Categories Poetry January, 2018 Your Last Sad Vehicle Keep watching those funerals — how they launch black sedans over cemetery landscapes, stop them by a new grave where the body enters orbit around..
H Categories Poetry January, 2018 Hygge I asked you what you wanted me to write and you said it doesn’t matter that you would read it anyway that it could be..
W Categories Poetry December, 2017 Why no one remembers the name of Janet Leigh’s character in Psycho. 1. Conundrum the saint with the sadness of autumn crickets. Flow your love to what cries unseen. 2. Rattle the linguist with the voices of..
F Categories Poetry Translations December, 2017 FIXED STARS ESTRELLAS FIJAS Cuando ya de la vida el alma tenga, con el cuerpo, rota, y duerma en el sepulcro esa noche, más larga que las..
M Categories Poetry December, 2017 Memory Take a hit. Watch the moon slip to new moon. Listen to the lady you Work with talk about ghosts, and start to cry..