“Visitation”
“My grandmother died the day / the missionaries came for our souls.”
June 12, 2023
“Litter for the Taking”
“My dream life started in L.A.’s concrete world.”
June 12, 2023
“Nausicaä”
“Maybe a spark jumped, but there is no name / for the god of fragments—there was just a fire I believed in.”
June 5, 2023
“The Three Graces”
“Who could care about the probability of love when brought, like us, to this / world under endless darkness?”
June 5, 2023
“Coyotes by the Eliot House”
“Tom I’ve a question and all I have is a question.”
May 29, 2023
“What Is the Smell of a Circle?”
“How much more pain / were we willing to endure to prove / we loved each other?”
May 29, 2023
“On Your Departure to California”
“Prayer for you out west. / Where night falls only after mine.”
May 22, 2023
“High Romance”
“And then Keats’s ghost found / that he could no longer love / Fanny Brawne.”
May 22, 2023
“The MRI”
“Again and again, we’ll put our shoulder / to the wheel / on which we’re broken.”
May 15, 2023
“To Astraeus”
“Pale blue, the split days pure radium, / bittersweet lace in the snow-white field.”
May 15, 2023