When they asked my daddy for id I showed them mine.
When we needed blades & generators to light the granite
Factory’s operations. I vouched my name for those rentals,
My murky illegitimacy. When the big saw sliced
Through stone, jets of water gushed from the cut and ran
All the words I’ve ever written through the sluices, heavy
Grey slurry, with twinkles every now and then. Like a slate
Lake catching the night sky. …
Dos esqueletos en un solo cuerpo
Buscan acomodar sus huesos
Y todos los golpes que les ubican
Sus caderas que menean solas
Dos esqueletos en un solo cuerpo
Un esqueleto …
There is strength in numbers, as shown
by the return of cyclamens, nodding
their purple heads along the path.
I try not to smash them, there are only
three patches of …
When the pandemic fell upon the earth, my husband Andrew and I went to the L.A. Arboretum. Few other Southern California locations remained open after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued our …
In the middle
of something. I exist:
barely and bulb-like.
An idea that is nothing
but mass. Before it’s been
given any thought,
but after its
conception …
Was it only the mild indecision
to postpone lunch and turn,
planning to catch our breath
just as Lake Michigan’s gilding
dulled to the shading of a moment—
unremarkable, transient, …
by Laton Carter Two perfect dandelions hover stemless above the grass. The leopard is in repose, and the squirrel, upright on its haunches, offers to …
by César Vallejo I will die in Paris with hard dirty rain, on a day I now remember. I will die in Paris – and I don’t run – maybe …
1. Llorona The rabbit brush is what locates us on the lateral side of what, in Spanish, is an acequia and, in English, a drainage ditch. It’s hard not to have a …
You have to remember the Aspen grove; the white stalks of trees, their stuttering leaves– the descending quiet. Vesper sparrows. No one beside you; no one behind you. But you hear …
