Poetry
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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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Remember me in words
I Remember me in words Count the syllables. Recount them. Can you see them Kneeling before the universe? I pray in verse To these unruly..
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Linger
You linger on, Like the scent of a favorite perfume in the rain. I used to try and forget about you, But now all I..
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The Soul Of This Poem Is My Blood Sugar, Or Eating In The Small Room
for John Cassavetes Tippi Hedren would be more nonplussed than me, or you—I can’t remember who is who—but she’s playing herself, hosting Dinner and..
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Last Smoke
When the crickets have slowed to a crawl, the evening having lost its heat at last, when the neighbors’ houses turn chiaroscuro as you take..
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A collagist tagged the sky
The sagas break like a new moon covered in tickets Hammer camp wow, auto parts and her ankle rehab True stick death, slow seasons, sunswim..
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Legacy
she has inherited her father’s cracking bones and her mother’s dimple she stands in front of the mirror, Ma’s green dupatta resting against her..
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Brahmasthanam
All faces are one— so worship the bull at the gate, the elephant-headed son, the rising serpent light, and the dark mother’s womb. ..
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The Liquidators
Soviet hazardous waste experts spent an estimated $2 billion on the cleanup and threw everything from converted moon rovers to radio-controlled bulldozers at the demolished..
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Your Camel
Tomatoes and cucumbers overcome by mint — green beans hanging from gutters — circles around eyes weepy with moonlight. We sit on your porch, gliding..
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State Road Sixty-Two
Twentynine Palms two thousand eleven a salty, old Marine tried to tell me the legend of the Joshua Trees he spat brown juice from..
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AFTER BAUDELAIRE
It’s all very poetic To gaze at oneself through a cracked mirror But far more tragic To wipe down a faultless one And find your..