When to Eat a Persimmon • Catching up
Earth pocked by shrapnel / and fallen fruit. Heavy trees, intent / on still giving.
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ReadAll of Your Dreams Are Evidence of the Web That Holds You
How your body can stay very still while your mind climbs out through the ceiling. -
ReadPost-Mortem • Pre-Mortem
the pleasure of letters and butter and lobsters, nestled / in linen, unable to answer, the pleasure of curtains, / their sun-dappled shadows -
ReadEvery Time a Freedom Fighter Dies
Those stories of activists remain / stories, leaving me to wonder / if wings are quixotic things that only get you pinned -
ReadThirty Sonic • again & gain & in &
cratered once-oceans / looping the lunar / phases, playing our faces / on shuffle, no [[ agents ]] to label us / illegal -
ReadVerbicide • Autopoiesis
i name a thing & occupy its territory. i hear / glory, is to kill this image with the sound of hooves -
ReadNumber Line • The roof
With a soul, we are about 8 degrees warmer / than without one. -
ReadThree Memos
Be grateful inside the storm. You are our perfect audience. You are flesh blended into machinery. -
Readthe big payback • Mrs. Tubman’s toes
Dainty was she, with pistols and desert roses / in the dune mosques of the Sahel that foretold her safeness. -
ReadIn Excessed
“I was the first cigarette, untouched out of a new pack, she inhaled me” -
ReadThe art of losing & other poems
“Lose something every day — drop coins / from the hole in your pocket, go hungry / at school.” -
ReadSabíduria: A wisdom, an (Indigenous) Knowing
“These words, herbs, and visions accompanied me through a monthlong spiritual ceremony of separation.” -
ReadOde to Mother & other poems
“I have hunted for Mother / Howled at Mother Moon / Pricked my healing with Mother Cactus / Touched my pleasure parts, the Mother Wound” -
ReadWhere We Begin & other poems
“to stay together means not to begin living / to begin living is a separation” -
Readcure & other poems
“unwieldy love ritual of spring- / time pushing golden violet into the sky as / trinket and incense, your voice / in my warm hand. Who are you / in your dreams?