from On Walking On

He knew that a planet, too, wanders, open, in a field of asters. And watched / the terror vanish, falling with the trees into darkness. You walk the dark… More

Remainer

Red sky on bad TV tonight / on furniture, on skin, / I’ll remember this like it was / yesterday somewhere else, / like I was another woman /… More

Prologue

I was immortal in my ability to be knocked down / and spread myself out to take the punch again. / In this sense I am still a mother.… More

Two Poems by Wendy Xu

Unrested we said to others to leave / us pleased, not far along our track, still much // we want, half the slower good death / of cities too… More

from Aw Heck Land

I don’t mean that vocabulary is arbitrary, but rather that artistic intent can manifest itself—can thrive, even—in the absence of an infinitude of possibilities, in the absence of total… More

Sea of Tranquility

No one refrains from repeating the gesture forever. / New York as seen from a plane / Writing its name in the sky. / What once appeared to be… More

Alexander

All die, I’ll die / of breathing if I don’t die of holding someone / else’s breath, the downy vultures know; sunbathing // poor in Alexandrian authority offering /… More

Dakota Incident

His mother passed away, / cold errant, / in the cardboard container, / going begging / with a good shiny pen. / See what was so good about it. More