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PoetryTonight, I Am Grieving for a Mouse
She fell into my bathtub, sometime this afternoon, as water drained too slowly for tiny mouse survival. By the time I found her rigor…
PoetryEnd of October
this poem left tracks _________________ spice tea, darkness, the scheme of things, end of October _________________________________________________ A truck rushes through pre-dawn darkness empty trailer…
PoetryTheir Final Words
Unable to quit to save herself, five mouths to feed, all minors, her husband, undocumented, deported months ago, she still woke up early to…
PoetryGive Me a Pen, Give Me a Pencil
Give me a pen and I will break it into three pieces the way P possesses enough of pity, pain, patience and E earns enough of endorsement, equality,…
PoetrySisters Coffee
I let the screen door close behind me And the rest of the day was quite easy. At the dining room table Covered with…
PoetryHarvest
The sun hums a sphere song rising south along the horizon. The winds cool, greens lessen & brittle, leave the leaves festooning falling kites…
PoetryDew
Rest easy unborn while the warm air cools without a sun a dark blanket growing damp until gravid with aqueous eggs delivered to each…
PoetryThe Hall Closet of Your Childhood Home
Do not keep the herringbone wool, the upright Hoover or the red galoshes. Never mind that the wooden wagon of colored blocks still sparks…
Poetrycopper coil
pigeon-breasted Margarite thanks god that the pitch-glued cabbage leaf barrier and pessary of honey-soaked acacia are relics of the past— for freedom and modern…
PoetryThe Remember Tenure
After she died I thought I’d miss her being here. But I got over that. Now I know what I miss is never knowing…
PoetryTHE BODY BODY
Once I sprained both ankles playing basketball. Sedentary, house-bound for weeks, I smoked pot, snorted coke, chased speed with shots of whiskey. Take that, brain! Take…