turn-taking
my parents are to english as they are to the phone when it rings // when we pick up the phone to relatives, they don’t understand our jobs unless… More
Cruise Control
It was all crash and burn. Very gestapo. Very doomsday guru. It was more a moving than a shaking. Life a wispy thing at times amplified by good hair… More
The Breaks
Monday / a truck hits / a car hits / hers and the brakes / the driver says the brakes / are so weak / the decisions / are… More
I Go Onto Moment
I am roped in. I go on sense giving tours, / walked around by guides strangling their / lungs / singing anything / to make something sung. / Following… More
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 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
I Explain a Few Things
She was born in a shithole country that was fighting for the sanctity of a wretched block of ice / She said my own country is the most foreign… More