Tag Archives: Poetry

What I’m Reading: Summer dilates time. It has a way of taking foreeeever to get here, and once it arrives it seems like there’s months and months ahead of you, and enough time to do all the things you dreamed … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Like thunder, I’m a foreign-borne cloud that’sdrifted here, I’m lightning, and the balm of rain.Como tú, our blood rains for the dirty thirst of this land. Like thirst, like hunger, we ache with the … Continue reading →

swash papaya (redux) a swash papaya rolls gently onto my toes—desolate place this—oil sheens in eddies on sand once whitejust what is that color now?the swash papaya inediblesoft and blackened on its equator—equality evanesces much like a savage republicreplaces what … Continue reading →

Jailbreak of Sorrows (“I Had Me A Wife, I Had Me Some Daughters”) Massive heat dome comeDown on me — I’ve run myselfRagged — nobody knowsWhat I’ve done to my family. As the Fata Morganas shimmered away —I dug a hole as … Continue reading →

the kludge • the sun is a dayglo disc . . . take a cudgel to the kludgefrou frou in the bijou • What I’m Reading: In little-noticed court documents, federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the … Continue reading →

/ + (soy yo autoretrato) – / [redux] I am the day’s encryption /I am nylon whir on fetid skronk /I am must + disequilibrium /I am growth opportunity /I am terror in the grass /I am green bastion in silence … Continue reading →

the sensitive use of stelae and sedimentsrough as chip sealrolled flat and torn upwhat are you going to gain why is she crying not bad saving alkali ballsfrom demolition — devotionand diminution — that’s depravedpontificate in your jodhpurs wail in … Continue reading →

thee raging undergrowth (redux) the fear bitterness & hatredthe witch fellow faltersthe work the starkest darkest &the most sharply subversive pair of shoesthe wartime years self maneuvered & censoredthe jingoistic pension conditionalthe use of memory & his own wordsthe struggling … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Is my attention on loving,or is my attention onwho isn’t loving me? — Andrea Gibson / “Wellness Check” There is a feeling I get in my mouth after reading writing produced by a large … Continue reading →

yield time and space yield to no onetho anthropogenic change has slowedthe spin of the earthmilliseconds of fatwater around the equatoryou and your grandchildren’s grandchildrenmay not note it but the meta—verses will: a financial irregularitya capitalization a millisecond too latemega … Continue reading →