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Muslim Girlhood

I watched to see how the others lived, not knowing I was the Other.

My Daughter and God

My wife had time to form a thought: I have killed my daughter.

My First Boy

He would sneak into my room, we would have sex, he would sneak out.

My Grandmother’s Garden

I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife.

Narrative 10

Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.

Narrative 10

Narrative 10

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

Narrative at The Lab

Natural History

Intimacies of the body can outlive resistances of the mind.

Neonates

She knew Jim would be a terrible husband. They’d murder each other.

Nick Will Be Successful Influential & Will Marry the Pretty Girl and He Didn’t Even Go to Yale

The graffiti suggests the most essential story of New Haven.

No Apples, No Clover, No Hay, No Grass, No Carrots, No Maize, No Alfalfa, No Linseed, No Deep Bag of Oats

Just sugar cubes and a crop for you. Salt licks to smart the tongue.

Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts

Standing there in our small shadows, we discuss the ways of the dead.

Nothing of Consequence

The women wanted signs of regret, but she was straight shouldered.

Obit

The Village wasn’t really a village. No walnut trees. Just cut flowers.

Of Marriage, of Glass Gardens

Once upon a time, a couple wandered in a glass forest, hand in hand.

Old Friends

His chest rose and fell softly, in time, it seemed, to the song.

One Such as This

Later in the pale of dawn your hair brushed across my forearm.

One-Man Show

Only When

As a shadow I arouse you will you believe the truth of my mouth.

Operation Iraqi Freedom

It was enough to make the most hardened veteran drop his guard.

Order, Discipline, and Decorum

I broke up fights, bandaged cuts, fielded calls from parents, and sat with the sad or depressed.

Out of Body

I don’t need to consult a healer to feel the aura glowing around us.

Partition

The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—

Patisserie

Que voulez-vous? I said. Patisserie, she said and smiled. Pastry, I said. Well, that’s predictable.

Pia Outloud

Poems from OBIT

Death is our common ancestor. It doesn’t care who we have dined with.

Praying Naked and Other Poems

Forgive me, please, for continuing to believe that roses are beautiful.

Promises

He folds on himself like a sheet kicked off the foot of a bed.

Rapture Basement

I used to be known for the humor of my music, the lightness of touch.