Selected Poems
Even the wind wants / to become a cart / pulled by butterflies. More
Breathlessness
I was so crazy tired that I said the word ‘slumberland’ under my breath & it took on the charge of invective while it also made a hoop which… More
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Your / Kisses / Your / Sky / Your / Darkness / Your / Sky More
from sourcings
what echoes across waters : / taotaomo’na— / from ‘taotao’ [‘people’] ginen ‘mo’na’ [‘precede’]— / ‘people of before’ ‘before time ancestors’ ‘ancient people’ ‘people before / recorded time’ etc More
Dialogues with Imaginary Partners
Readers should not expect straightforward autobiographical narrative, however, but a work in the symbolist mode, in which the semantic range of words is extended. More
Selected Poems
The rainy season is a league away traveling / at the speed of an era. The cloud formation / does not dissolve as I remove my eyes / from… More
What Is Withheld
My favorite / thing: to eat book after book while / reading apples. More
Journal of an Ordinary Grief
When the storm passed, all this curvature was complete, transformed into a circle whose beginning and end are not known. More
Goat in the Snow
After passing the farm with the goat / it was important to slow down. / Hello goat. Hello officer. So easy to lose track / when going downhill.… More
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