prelude: a small fire along the banks started withthe crumpled pages from the great americanpoetry 19th century anthologyesquire magazine coversplacemats from memorable restaurantsdiploma certificate...
The Parabolic Flight of the Hummingbird
I will hypnotize you
With my ecstatic flight,
Back and forth,
Flashing ruby red.
Casting my spell to declare
All of this mine--
The flowers,...
The Dissolving Man
It is good to disappear.Incognito fires extinguished.
And the dissolving manin a liquid beaker.
As some faraway youth-to-deathoccurs in direct proportion.
No knowledge of the...
Visiting Lalla Essaydi’s Revisions
A security guard follows me
while I visit Lalla Essaydi’s photography,
paintings, and multimedia art exhibit in DC,
with close pursuit in latticed space
he...
The Best Poems About Shenandoah Have Already Been Written But
misty clouds float over mountains carpeted in greenlike angels breath hovering over the mossy forest...
Dead Man's Toenails
Every time I look down, there he is—thick disease-ridden hooves for nails,
dad's gift to me. I've resented them my entirelife. Briefly the...
A Heart-Shaped Amulet
Gazing upon the houses and fields of my kingdomI can see my grandmother outside a cottage –around her neck a heart-shaped amulet.Behind...
How Soon Is Now?
Christmassomewhere in Dixie
a young mothernurses her baby
listening to anythingbut The Smiths
while geekstry to figure out
her nameher location
Students shotthe footage
yet thered hat
that...
Fenwick Island
I wish you were here,for you would understandhow the confident starscan move this nightto companionable pity,unwholesome as it is,how the imperishable seamasquerades its...
