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We made do with what we had on the land that was given to us. The land, gorged with sand & dusty murals. How people lived was quite simple. Holograms sold things at the market. Money was no longer the exchange unit of commodities as the crude method of trade by barter was refined. In […]
The ocean swells under her windowsill / its waters lick at the house’s seams & squeeze / through the gap under the front door / rain kamikazes down from the skies / like a father’s fists might. / Waterlogged books grow thicker by the day / knickknacks drift about like flotsam / spiders sail on […]
You body a map, a spaceship. You body geologic database. Every catalogue a body, every body a category. Everything in you perfect- ly untouched. How little you knew your vessel, the only one given this orbital life. Sacrilege, blasphemy to ignore self so—you tender rib, you flinchless eye, release of cheekbone meridian on exo- planet […]
I. How gruesome that rabbit’s foot is, tucked into your launch suit’s pocket, your luck tethered to a clutch of severed bones and genetically altered fur. Real rabbits, the ship’s computer insists, did not glow in the dark. I asked you once, stars bounding behind us- jackrabbit quick that leap from Moon to […]
& a boy is on a rooftop, dropping a flower for his friend who jumped off a building. some say he descended, like rain. some say he plummeted like an arrow shot from heaven. all in all, no one ever thought: what if he flew downwards expecting to be caught? or for a brief moment, […]
I enter this forest with immolation whatever touches me become ashes or loses a layer of itself. I am not the bad guy. I just want to see the sun […]
Old English rǣdere ‘interpreter of dreams, reader’ Future reader, you first saw me before I saw you. I was reading then, but afterwards the machine projected your poetry, a digital translation of what you read and see. I liked it slow. Me: I saw this poetry first before I saw you. Poetry is a […]
Last night it rained peas. From the pockets of the princess’s gown they scattered across the city streets, leaving a trail like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs. Now hungry children gather up the dried green peas and dream of a real dinner. They tell the story of a girl who won a royal wedding by sleeping […]
At an open bar in Sarkin Pawa the night was flourishing to Burna Boy’s las las. Our bodies were getting drowned in our beers; the bandits have invaded and conquered Sharp-Kona. Some voice drunken in the music tells us to run. something hit a man dancing to the music; […]
As all good girls in red coats know, it isn’t the threat of going in but coming out of the forest that breeds discomfort. You’re used to finding dead moths in your pockets, mice barrettes clipped to your hair. You’ve wrestled tree roots, chewed darkness like sap, […]
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