Spring 2023

Winter Feels

Today was still one of the wintry feels in my city, which may be a large one even by the standards of New York...

Juba

crouching at the great river watching school teem so heavily walking from this bank means nothing

New Rochelle

wheresoever that road bends by that farm we go not that way our mothers say wheresoever he may walk turn him to hell and head home

Who's in Charge?

The photo slides out of the envelope first. Its edges are worn from age, a thumbtack hole in the top right corner. The colors are muted...

Faux Fur

Couch scrolling in Seattle the summer of 2018, I stopped at a post from Hey Alma, a Jewish and feminist online magazine, in which a woman...

The Detective in the Frame

When he wakes up she’s there: the girl who always gets it in this story, sprawled on the bed or floor in an incriminating manner...

A Short History of My Reign: II

An insight into the mayhem surrounding my descent can be derived from a high resolution photo of my corpse reconstructed by court...

The Indiana Jones World Adventure Tour

Before our whip lesson in Utah, at Arches National Park, David Clockodile—the short, stocky man who'd been running The Indiana Jones...

Rabbit/Coyote

I remember during those Vietnam years how a lot of things had become easy that had been a problem before. In most particular, it was...

First Day of School at CMI

I submit poems to seven places say hi to Anna who found a place near Brandon see the broken pieces of turtle shell my husband found...

Johannesburg, 1955

Not African, this heat to us, just something that we fled. Any pool would do: strangers’, owners overseas. We swarmed...

Saturday Afternoon

What I know is what she chose to confide to my mother after my father had died— how she turned to retrieve her purse, the young man...

Custody

It was one and a half days before I had to go to the county courthouse. Spring was the daffodils and no color from the tulips yet and...

Disambiguation With Fire Trucks at Elsinore

One day, you’ll have died fat and happy, bloated cheeks caked in make-up to animate your face; there’s nothing vatic in saying this in...

Thérèse Dreaming at The Met

Thérèse is dreaming at The Met, eyes closed, her left knee raised, revealing white panties: Balthus claimed that the only thing exposed...

Power

In a long ago classroom, physics was invented by a bald teacher carved from rocks and clouds. He stepped from behind a podium and bid us...

Elegy for No One

This morning I can’t unread How the onion the leek seller Summoned to retrieve The corpse of her son...

Refuge

I’m in a country of refuge lovely lawns always a warm embrace here not that I know anyone but the days are sunny everyone has projects...

Chasing Shapes

I met her at the park on a sunny day. She had violet-coloured eyes. Contact lenses she ordered from Malaysia. The pupils were bright like...

You Think You Have Me Pegged

I want you to know it wasn’t like that. We didn’t meet at a bar. When I met your fiancé, the scene was so unthreatening, unassuming. It...