in memoriam you watch her heaving chest where you once lay sleeping hoping for it to last & you keep on thinking of the times when she left & came …
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Poetry
She sits loud-spoken, settling stiff body on stiff mattress with soft gray curls kissing humid air and I watch her hands sweep upward strokes, needle caressing beanie baby with rat-punctured …
Barefoot The organizer said, “Okay, everyone gather at this place at this time–pretend it’s a birthday party. Then head over to the creek when it turns dark; there will be …
metronome of knife to cutting board a chorus of sounds my eyes well up as she continues without a single tear down the hall, the piercing smells overtake us she …
…I would say I love it, what’s in my body, but I want you to love it too. ‘Answer 3’, Devin Kelly I was searching for the poet when I …
the promise of a new year is in a bowl of ddukguk, for every strand of flesh reveals the body that wastes away, every bite of dduk the coins fade …
after Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Hour’ This evening, in the train station, I ascended, you descended— our eyes met, then I turned away. My husband was behind me, and you went …
“He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.” – Psalms kuala lumpur | houston, 1981. they …
your blood goes picnicking at a grave brooms and burnt paper in hand 4/4/[2000 + 4×4] At Qīngmíng only the magnolia huā (花) bloomed munificent white against a grey curb. …
You would make me choose to press autumn hues between pages of The Invisible Man, or to jump in piles of reds and yellows but never to turn two leaves …