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Poetry

Moon Sun Shadow Crow

     A crow crosses each road twice: shadow and shadow cast.      A crow steals gems and light filled foils, this crow      lifts each spoil high, holds it as the sun holds a crow, captured.      But today’s sun is moon-chased. This crow sees its large god, stalked      by […]

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In blue sight

We ship ourselves in the deep blue sea. Our hands oars, memories the only compass working backwards, downwards, abysswards. We metal our way on the waves, wave ourselves just above the surface. We don’t need to surface to breathe. Breathing rusts our joints, the salt rots our synthetic connections, iodine burns our synapses, touch screens […]

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pockets full of stones

you ask me, lips pressed to vertebrae, about the ocean: does it weep for all those lost at sea; does it remember all it’s taken?                             the tides have torn a hole in you, I think, and I press the slim bones of your fingers tight against my ribs, and do not say: I dream, sometimes, […]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO CREATURES

The Science of Dying Dear creatures,           this is how you will leave this world.             IHouselights will dim their fluorescence and open their curtains,                                      repeatedly, giving darkness a passage.             IIThe air will braid its tentacles into thick black cornrows.             IIIThe drums will be ripped, & streetlights will […]

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fowlskin

for the Doctors of Carterhaugh, Brittany Warman and Sara Cleto   I have danced in my day. I have danced. red ribbons in my hair, at my throat. spat my ring in his soup, pearl and gold. stole a ring from his tower. it broke. spat up toads. spat up roses. bells, too. and horse […]

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