pastry case
the pastry case
is an aquarium of still lifes
where works of pain au chocolat float
alongside those of éclair and chouquette
to begin to make...
Anahata Heart Chakra for a New YearYou can never lose what you give away freely.—PatanjaliListen to your heartIts color is cloverBedding for lovers wakingTo...
Residuum
“Detritus? I’ve never heard that word,”my new neighbor says, as I’m apologizing for whatI mistakenly rinsed off of my deck onto his below,the stems...
Delivery
The two-member Council of Double Breasted Cormorants roosting on either end of the cross barof a defunct clothesline in the middle of a lake...
Glass Dreams
In dream,my father witnessed the ceremonial conclusion of my apprentice scholar period—when my name was summoned into awakening—accepts my absence from the quorum...
Inherent Limitations of Scaleafter Kay Ryan’s “Dynamic Scaling”
the model boat in themodel waves made of water molecules of a certainirreducible size
wind tunnel, containing miniature...
Follow the Directions
It was the blue-covered cookbook she reached for every time.
She couldn’t remember when she had received it,
wondered if she had borrowed...
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...
occupier artclasswindow is crackedopen to let fresh air in. outsidesunny schoolyard under
lovely cloudless sky,the kind of blue beggingto be licked and torn asunderby hungry...
“Woke” Words Purged
“These Words Are Disappearing in the NewTrump Administration,” New York Times, March 7, 2025* Underscored words survived the purge.
diverse litany of...
