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PoetryOn Recent Advancements in AI
On a perfectly normal Saturday, the kind where normal humans do normal human things, I log online to check my bank account for fraud,…
Poetrythe boy who loves
it is not okay to be a wounded boy as a man acting from pain yet a human leans toward sky the child sees…
PoetrySomeone’s Gone
Your arrival home was never a surprise, the swashbuckler slash of headlights gave you away to the pirate crew, pajama-ed and all sugared up…
Poetrysome regrets
are like an ancient light arriving late with no time to turn back to retrace falls flat stale and old but stings the retina…
PoetryThe pelican
Pouring beans onto a plate I stare into the emptied pan I wash up forget to eat thinking of the pelican at the sea…
PoetryA Train Through the South
Clatter-click, the wheels hum hymnals, iron devotions through swamp-threaded veins. Out the window—a preacher, part-wolf, part-telephone, howls his sermon into a crescent moon, dangling…
PoetryRetaining Walls
Along the far edge of the parking lot the landlord’s men stacked rough-hewn stone to build a retaining wall for the runoff rain. …
PoetryToo Much
She did not ask if she could be strong, she just was, like a tree that grows sideways to find the sun. Her voice…
PoetryAugust Almanac
Prologue: August is the shopper in front of me chatting up a cashier while my ice cream melts, the guy in flip flops behind…
PoetryFalling
Ice comes slowly to a lake it’s like love and then all at once you’re head over heels
PoetryAutumn Prayer
May Autumn last long enough for a full census of fallen leaves. May we mediate between extremes, and find resolutions without conflict. May we…
PoetryBarnacles, Fir Trees, Elephant Ears
Towering crumbling columns fill the air Empty endless ribbons guard silent brick edifices Nestled among the stacks Dry sandy brown dervishes skitter endlessly across…