I recalled for the therapist a rabbit skin I bought
At summer camp, at the camp trading post,
When I was nine or ten using cash my parents
Sent with me my first trip away from home.
I waited a long time to get the rabbit skin,
Waited in line a long time for the popular item,
The most popular item for sale, and in the rush
Once it was my turn I bought a …
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On the one side
there are hummingbirds
plucking secret fruits
from the tongues of foxgloves
& a shimmering woman
who yawns like a cat
in the day bed of a
I’ve only seen them build nests on underpasses, on buildings, in the shadows of London Bridge—relocated from Britain to sandbar sex party shit show Lake Havasu, both names reminders of …
I am soft with healing after
I am luxuriant with good fortune after
I am cloaked by lady beetles a scent of salted olive, my nature after
all means spacious …
makes simple nests in caves or clefts eats large amounts of carrion
especially susceptible to poisoning was poached almost to extinction
the year you were born all …
for Panella
It was too generous for gunshots,
too casual for fireworks. Our house
sparked once, then oncetwice, oncetwice.
Fire. In this day and age. Livid
until we understood, we rose …
He came to me in a dream, wet as a newborn in his new skin. I readied him for a bowl of bitter world (the cathedral two blocks away from …
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 …
I’ve learned to learn the street by sound, a candy wrapper snipering the gutter in a wind, an owl faltering on the imitation belfry over the ocean. Her tail feathers …
Film #1 You have holes in your energy field. The therapist announced. The husband was dismayed. His wife brought her hand to her mouth. Your holes need to be filled.
