January 2019
Is it because they can’t tell the Casa Grecque
from the Cabane Grecque?
Because they drown in buckets of oversalted feta,
or they have lost their ways through white tablecloths
and folded napkins returning from the restrooms?
December 2018
We cannot know his ordinary head
except from photographs, eyes wholly terrified.
And yet his torso, bent over ...
November 2018
you fill the water bottle
you found in the trash
with pondwater in the field
at recess
because it has been ...
October 2018
She took the child to the crest of a green hill
overlooking an immense land, and swept her arm
across the ...
September 2018
A boy awoke to watch the wind blow
his parents' weathervane relationship,
leaving him in a fog.
I changed ...
August 2018
I love your world , he said, just keep it to yourself
—I love your mouth.
In a Star ...
July 2018
People who thought differently were called worms, dogs, traitors.
– from an article in The New York ...
June 2018
This is our end of season in the food forest.
Bitter apple. Fairytale fungus. Spores so dry
they fly and ...
April 2018
the war is over
and we are still
............ here.
if the good
angel ...
April 2018
I sit next to him on a park bench on a cool summer day. His smile is beautiful. He tells me I am gorgeous. I take ...
March 2018
BOND “GIRLS” PT. 1: LUCIA
Everyone loves older men and even older cities. But women
must be girls, and preferably girls from out of town. But
I’ve lived here my whole life. And when you died, I fell February 2018
Each of us, in turn, has to answer, in one word,
the question: What are you feeling?
In December no less, when it gets dark at four
and this classroom’s been double-booked.
Another band of politicized marginals
prowls restless in the corridor