“Ass so fat you can see it from the front.”—Yasiin Bey At Auntie Anne’s pretzel hut A teenager with cratered Pockmarked acne declares That ass is like the moon—…

  1 So, you’re from China, and write poetry, in English? Often, people who don’t know me ask. Yes, I say, I make them short, so fewer mistakes. Sometimes I…

  cento* I live, as the river does, in a mystery— wedged in the middle of stars, roses in bloom, penstemon, the wet branches of an oak in winter— where…

+++ (An In-titled Poem)* +++ no nerve-ending ever not riven, +++ i revert to over-genuine, eerie-tongued venting… +++ i regret needing order— +++ never intend to get urgent, indigent: +++…

  There’s a firefly in the house. I tried to catch him and return him to the long grass of the unmown lawn, but he slipped through my fingers and…

  This is the side hustle: +++++++++I eat their dead’s past indiscretions, maybe ++++++++++++++choke a little on the crumbs. +++++Then I go home, +++++++++make mac & cheese for my kid,…

  In the field near my house, a horse grazes in his own shadow. All week I thought again of wanting to die. I watch the sun hit the fence…

  What I didn’t suspect about war is that there’d be music Not the kind that compels you to move in harmonious discord with the others Nor the kind that…

  “I always thought I was great but why does making it big take so long?” — Julius Eastman; with Arthur Russell, Gerry Eastman, Pauline Oliveros et al et al…

  i. If you make friends with fear, you’ll never be lonely. And who can feel lonely in a beaded cloak? Oblong yellow shards humming a bhajan or a warning…

after Adam Zagajewski I was trying to love the whole world as I loved one girl. Quietly in the dark she has pressed six blistering rows to her thigh with…

  there are too many creatures in the world find the monk seal or water bear purple frog whiling away hundreds of years hidden deep there are too many strange…