POETRY

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
—Rita Dove
Letter To a Young Poet

Do not say anything anybody else has said ever. Things are not “bleached by sun.”

I Garden at the Edge of Autumn

There is so little left of the tomato plants.

things they won’t tell you but should:

love is a soggy tea stain on a grocery receipt

Unerased | Steep Steps

My grandmother asked, “Does it feel like being widowed?”

All In

I don’t
know why
I’m in the garden
kneeling on dirt

Electric Eels, Finishing School, Teeth

Millions of Americans have been affected by identity theft. It’s probably the greenhouse gases.

Ode To the Dove Pt. VI (Avrom Sutzkever)

Yes I am guilty, I’m guilty. A sin was desirable then.
Bring the dancer back to the stalks.

You can’t make them love you, no matter how artfully you betray yourself

Try not to see your own predicament in every fucking thing.

Finding My Fix

I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.

Despairathon

You’ve spent a lifetime training
for this.

love poem with dead leaves & color

I would always rather be happy than
dignified. Rather held than held
in awe.

REVENGE SCENE

Okay, picture this: We’re in an elevator. The elevator shuts down. It doesn’t matter where we’re going, only that we’re alone.

woman at bar
After She Told Me You Pushed Her Down the Stairs

Empty vessels
make the most sound, I think,
as you rip the fairy lights off the handrail.

robertson quay

how does an afternoon turn
on its axis?

My Multiverses

It is the 70s. 1970s? 2570s? Who knows?
Audre and I have a penthouse in New York.

painting of apple and grapes
Feast Of

anger, like you can sink teeth into, candy apple

An Endeavor of Being Now

We stop doing dishes while
a mile unwinds
from the tree outside.

Welcome To The House of Static

here is the sky in stop motion, flickering,
a still shot in monochrome

Good Driver

Lights on the dashboard spell out
“You still can’t kiss me”

Snow Falls from Branches

Should have found a job by now; should have slept in the night;
should have boiled old coffee before noon.