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Without Courtesy

I was lying with electricity. I was already a story being told.

won’t you celebrate with me

won’t you celebrate with me that every day has tried to kill me

Working Title

Without a working title, a poem could muddle meaning, confuse purpose.

Wrapping Fable

At the core, a daughter is a self-reckoning emptiness.

Yet and Other Poems

No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.

You Ask

You ask, Could we have coffee? No, my truth, I’m still on this side.

You Deserve Nothing

There were classes where you became a family. It was a kind of love affair.

You Remember the Pin Mill

Her cheek was like a plum about to burst and you had to close your eyes.

You Said Eden Disappeared and Other Poems

As a child I wanted to behold the elusive squid, the patience of eels.

You, or Someone Like You

I’ve got my hands around the man’s legs when I notice the blood.

Your First Date

You slouched on the couch, naked, in front of the air conditioner.

Your Mouth, Our Prayer

give me a fish and I will make a necklace of its sharpest bones

[Gloomy Octopus]

I read an article and learn that the gloomy octopus has three hearts.

[The sparrows keep hurling themselves against the windowpanes]

and still it is summer and each day the sun arouses the kudzu