your macbook open on untreated pine
coffee brimming with a milky fern
cashmere sweater hugging
... [+]
Your Russian Blue is not crazy when she
somersaults off the armchair to run, run
run down the
... [+]
The seashells near the ocean
where I grew up are storytellers.
Every morning, feet burning
... [+]
This dictionary defines "rooihout"
as a South African tree on page 2624;
"aasvogel," a
... [+]
I was born, Mom says, dollhouse-
ready, pre-Barbie hair a field
of curls, the early bird that
... [+]
I dropped
an
ice cube
into
the sea
which sort
of replied
as if to
say
... [+]
The girl upstairs doesn't know
How old I am.
I mean old old old
I don't know either,
I
... [+]
It begins in the back
garden. ripping up weeds
against resistance
like being 8 years old
... [+]
What can you do
When your mother states
"You're on the shelf,
Past your sell-by-date"?
... [+]
The intricate sounds of Orozco's Guitarra and
the beep, beep, from passing automobiles
... [+]
Noun. Consistency in one's personhood regardless of externalities.
II cannot escape theveil on my
... [+]
Sure, a few of the vowels are missing,but I'm no dummy,though rushing toward the nextinconsequential ... [+]
Holy is the thingon its slow dance across the night,all chalk-faced and beaming,filling the ... [+]
A silky warm scent coats the air.
Soft layered rose tutus push
their blush pale skirts
to float
... [+]
Here we go tra-la-la
Fixing the house, hammer in hand
The soles of our feet stained to match
... [+]
I have seen you, shell-shocked city,
Shimmer in the parachute flares
The day's dust and exhaust
... [+]
The first day of his life on earth began,
when a spark of magic from his soul ran
out from
... [+]
I went to Philadelphia to see the house that I grew up in.
It's being demolished to make room
... [+]