Poetry

  • Three Poems

    Three Poems

    Nights like these, the sky tips like a kicked over bucket and tens of millions of wings are stitched to the Mississippi wind’s long seam. But glass houses false stars and promises of endless flight. Then, sends dark dreams. At…

  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    Will Bloom in Our Lacuna I’m sorry I can’t give you and oursa child, sorry the barrenness rests in my chest and notmy womb, sorry I’ve turned the earthbeneath our tree blank like a black walnut, that everyoneyou loved who…

  • Eight Poems

    Eight Poems

    Brown Girl Dreams of Arson Yesterday I dreamed empires are falling again. This time it was under the weight of climate reports nobody bothers to read andonline petition signed with burner accounts. I dreamed America melted like butter left too…

  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    We Measure the Unspeakable with SeedsMy dad calls me to tell mehe has cancerthe size of a peppercorn,speaking nonchalantlyabout the diagnosisas if this informationis merely a piece of foodhe finds stuck in his teethafter speaking with doctors all day.At least…

  • Three Poems

    Three Poems

    over coffee. At least I’m good at nodding. Fishermen were paid to take the roles of morticians. Instead of shovels, a line and hook. There’s a bay into Manila that every president jones

  • Two Poems

    Two Poems

    Afro a dictionary entry for Thavius Beck Af·ro 1 of 2 combining form 1 : Black, as separated from     |Afro-Punk     |Afro-Alternative |The rise of the prefix “afro” in alternative scenes has generated an accessible,|digital library of inspiration for…

  • Four Poems

    Four Poems

    Kwikset That lock we kept on our doorwasn’t so much of a lock as a nonbinding contract I keptwith an outside world only vaguely complicitin our agreement— something we might forget aboutif one of us didn’t sign it every day—…

  • prognosis of sound

    prognosis of sound

    “Listening / for shimmers of sap / singing out / from the burl of a ginkgo tree”

  • Sound kept

    Sound kept

    “Description is a genre and so necessarily reductive. / What feels important to know is that there are logistical concerns re: theories of death.” OR “Impossible descriptions are made more gruesome in their optimistic attempt. / Up and then not.…

  • National Poetry Month: Two Poems

    National Poetry Month: Two Poems

    Loyalty Oath Let evening winds carry a tsunami of scents to her sleep, and let him with a smile like a paperweight and a craggy face of bark find his way, let the back door of the flower truck passing…

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