Prison Proposal, Prison Wedding
There won’t be ceremonial white, a red-cheeked niece dumping fistfuls of petals, our song making a fool of my anxious feet… More
Poetics: Mid-summer 2016 (fragments from a freestyle)
Troy asked me today: “So have you put any thought into what you want to do when you get out of here?” More
The PEN Ten with Leslie Jamison
I’m also actively resisting both hopelessness and complacency—as well as the belief that art is irrelevant in politically troubled times. More
The Pathologos
You cannot find a picture of your future wife / There is not enough white space around your imagination / Who will look at your collage when you are… More
from Don’t Worry
Like always, she’s sitting at the out-of-tune grand piano, mashing down the pedal and making the windows of the Kolah Farangi Emirate tremble...Sara, when did you return? More
from Neverending Quest for the Other Shore
To all people of good faith embarked / on the obscure waters of immemorial chaos / where the djinn furiously unravel/ their long lamé manes / flying in the… More
from Revolt Against the Sun
She died, but no lips shook, no cheeks turned white / no doors heard her death tale told and retold, / no blinds were raised for small eyes to… More
from Chaim Gravitzer
At the head of the table sat a wide-shouldered young man with laughing black eyes, feigning a strict demeanor. More
from A Walk in the Shadows
No threat or reprimand could calm our racing hearts and the restlessness spurred by a place where rules and prohibitions fell on us without weight, like a feather. More
from One Left
The last one is out of her coma. For three weeks she recognized no one. She speaks in a labored, halting tone: “I can’t die—not when I think there… More
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