all we have is desperate hope and astrology charts I want to capture this moment where we interlace our arms around each otherstanding beneath ursa...

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...

You Told Me You Loved Me I wish I knewWhat you meant whenYou showed up at my roomAnd you told me you loved me.It has...

Give Me More Stretching open I feelexactly how I want to.The fear makes me tremblebut want feverishly. The moon is not full.I am not wild now.I...

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...

This Planet Let me live here in this placeLet me thrive just onceOn this imagined planetThis alternative mental dimension called dreamCalled hallucinationWhere streets are dotted...

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