There is in the Water
What happened here the history I mean thismean thing there right there the bridgewhere they were lynched and who elsewas there and this is always here Ito make them mean something and howcan inanimate objects say what all thismeans, you ask, and I say you...
Bellevue Library
I remember this library as hiddenin trees, perched on the hillside,pierced by birdsong.
I looked out from the second floorto see the oak trees,...
Immaculate Ruins
It begins with a stranger’s cautious agreementto get lost for a while in the ruins of you, playing
sentinel from the love seat’s worn...
Trick of Rings and Things“The Lord
is my Ringmaster, I’ll always want!”
Said
Gollum
A fiend
For the
ring
Crack ho’
Of his time
What is the meaning of the ring?
Love is
an
overrated
misunderstood
thing
Precious
metal
surrounding
the
space
waiting
for
something
to
occupy...
These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.
The Genuine...
new chairs
i didn't expect whitebut i knew black was outmaybe natural wood
anything to replacethe worn out and breakingcane-bottomed kitchen chairs
chairs that had lastedfar beyond...
Thirst, Greece
From a photo by Herbert List, 1939
A slender forearm in shadowelbow on a tablefingertips contemplating a tumbler of ouzoindex finger raised from the...
too far out
holding fire,but taking aim -
puttingBackthe hands of time -
hidden in my breastshattered fragmentsof bombs and rockets -
making my waythrough unknown waters
a shadowpasses...
