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...
Banks America
it’s raining, it’s pouringold-monied bankers are snoringdreaming wetly on a Sunday morning
whether to still those robo-pensthat keep scribbling and scribblingsignature after signature accepting...
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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Flash of lightGlimpse of a crisp fontPerfect kerningGleaming teethSaturated colorHigh contrastSoothing noiseSmiles everywhereWork in a pair of breastsTrigger the reward center
Permeate a scentSummon...
The Stroke
followed him up the back stairs,through the kitchen door,
passing me at the tableand into the living room
where he collapsed on the floor.I picked...
approaching eternity
the navigator is the bishop’sdaughter he said before he left us
planted in the astronomers’meadow head thrown backand eyes open to the nighti study...
POULTICEWhen you have looked elsewherefor answers—the spider’s web,the empty hive, the rotted log,beneath the unturned stone—ask yourself what you haveneglected. Do not lamentthat what...
Violin Plays
She holds on tight to bow and strings, yet,it is her body, curving and rounding,on inner caverns that gives musicits beginnings: Soaked in...
