Off Ramp This wasn’t the exit I wanted. This a scattered merge away from where everyone else is headed. This one abrupt. This one crept...

Black Racers (Single Ladies) Along the trail that leads to the river, I come upon a pit of black racers— all writhing in a slithering sex...

He grew up in Poland, a Catholic childhood with a proclivity for stoicism; pious, ascetic, the gift of intellect and his rock-hard work...

She laces her cherry Docs and shuffles forward to knock A book tucked under her arm her heart ticking like a bomb Other side of that door...

I misheard write a tree poem, thought I’m not a tree person, I’m a bush person; I’m not a nature person, I’m a nurture person— which was...

Didn’t go to his funeral. Anxiety. Truthfully. Regretfully. I liked him. Counted out papers And betting slips Whilst the dog Lay black...

Lover, do you think the sun misses the moon the same way I ache for you? Do you think they’re long-distance like we are, with only an...

I Sister Three was on the phone, and she was outraged. Sister Two had told her about the photos I had taken that afternoon of our mother...

Open and Closed Doors The door of my childhood home is now worn, too many scratch marks from this dog or that one before we put a hole...

Aria for Need The night is a parched dog and I quench it, skate my feet so you will not hear me peel my toes from the kitchen’s stained...

THE ASK It's easy to spot a man who's having an affair. At least now it is. Absence where the was once presence. It starts out benign,...

HE CAME BACK YEARS LATER BUT I WAS ALREADY DAMAGED GOODS Bright parrots chirp glass songs near your lunette window <<>> I want to keep a...

Coevolution I’ve never dreamed of wolves only of the stars above their ears. My dog sleeps next to me still green from a roll in...

Existential 1 First, we were killing the bees. Then, people cultivated outrage & condescension & put white cubes of bee colonies on roofs...

I’d recognise you from any distance — even with your back to me, all packaged up in Petit Bateau, remote at the edge of a puddle,...

Helios got very weary of driving the sun so I agreed to help out. But on the way I lost my forks and had to stop long enough to call the...

Colder Playing Hot and Cold we hid a silver dollar and, being young, we heard no warning in the splutter hotter; we thought nothing of...

Sometimes I’m a fire you say, distant stare you’re thinking of oil slick, flame lit, tossing black clouds upward to an unreachable sun ...

I kissed a girl here, our first lips were sour and tight; our tongues dead weight. (where to breathe?) (How to hold my head?) She bit me....

I try to wrestle Your naked body Out of my mind Hold the door Open wide And tell you Firmly yet Eyes lingering That you should go (Looks...