All day the queen has been chattering in my ear. / I cannot complain; I invited her. / Truthfully, I’m…
Category: Poetry
He Tears His Hair and Asks Me What I Want
Not much. Only everything.
a siren whispered in my ear one night
convinced me to connect the constellations on your backbehind seaweed curtains and underneath sea glass lanterns.the sea called me, with…
Lover, You are the Vampire
empty streets: / I make illegal left turns at red lights. / the moon bursts and bruises: / a plum…
if Saturn
during the three-year rain / Saturn birtheda beautiful new ring that some dubbed the greatestmishandling of galactic expectation awed by…
Dear Monster Huntress
I know you come around here often,so why don’t you measure the salt of my tears?(I have etched your name…
Elegy from the Blue
with a line borrowed from Ojo Taiye i what will you sing if hunger abides in your blood?ash pours back…
Bank of Emergency
Every day I carry a shoeful of sand to my square office where,stumbling from edge to edge, I bruise like…
despair
face me Oxymandias / open your stone eyes / this world has changed
Galaxyfire
Pale hands beckon like open flame / foxfire on your lips / leads me deeper into your swamp / like…