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Poetry
the bud of a dead dream
you dream with one eye open in fear that they might be stolen by your mother and sold in the market because she said dreams are worthless, they cannot fill bellies, only empty ambitions […]
Love Letter in Cobra Pose
Those I love best are dust of feet, are bone to bone, are rag and gut—and none of this will matter. In fact matter will not matter. I cannot feel physics for void of you. Yes, I am flesh, wound as copper […]
Care for Lightning
Sure, she sent those heavenly snakes to slither into that hand-hewn crib, and slide along that baby’s skin. And sure, she sent those stinging insects against that cow, turned that one girl into a bear, chained that one dude to a fiery […]
We Tried Beating Time to Death
it is i / who throws the first punch / into the face of the effigy we built / in the shape of an hourglass the others / stand in line / waiting to see / where i am going with this […]
Null Path Catalog
after Kaveh Akbar Rhododendra grow through stone and imperia grow through the lighthouse foghorns knocking on condense night. The moon governs gestural intent into running tar. Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow: uncorked, decanted, to breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark, or out […]
Anansi Braids Your Stepson’s Hair
On the verandah you can hear them both laugh like something bright and restless is in their diaphragms. The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster-princes, of handsome boys eager to not miss this day of school they said they were too sick […]
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