I Decided I Would Fail at Everything
Let my spider plant shrivel in a swim of photons. I found the perfect word and backspaced it out of memory. I slept until everyone slept, then woke to…
I Renounce My Life as a Philodendron
Even as telephones buzz and silver voices sing of cash flow strategies, I slump in a shadowed corner by the photocopier and do not make a sound, not a…
Humans Naming Trees
willow, sallow, blackthorn thought is made in the mouth quaking aspen, silver birch pulse is mouth in the wrist cedar, alder, slippery elm wrist is grief in…
Breath’s Opinion
in memory of Sam Seskin All I know is: at this moment, a young scholar solves a century-old problem. A group of six climbs Everest, a group…
look, my monologue has broken off
look, my monologue has broken off I don’t know who’s guilty maybe my own brain allured towards another light by the little beggars who tug on your sleeves …
she told me to color my hair
she told me to color my hair and cut it I want to stay wild as in my childhood when the trees were god’s lungs and the stars the…
leave me alone with my head under the pillow
leave me alone with my head under the pillow so I can’t hear you when you talk in your sleep leave me alone in my darkness at my flag…
Ghost Umbilicus
To touch the indentation, purled and pinched, centered in a swale of flesh between bone ridges, point where tissue was severed, and we were torn from the beat…
Six Degrees of Separation from Kuniyoshi,
a man who covered his body in tattoos, tattoo, its root in seventeenth century Dutch for “turn off the taps,” prolonged bugle call to tavern owners so soldiers would…
34. Two tortoises on a cart pulled by a young ox
两龟乘犊车， 蓦出路头戏。 一蛊从傍来， 苦死欲求寄。 不载爽人情， 始载被沉累。 弹指不可论， 行恩却遭刺。 Two tortoises on a cart pulled by a young ox find a sudden drama on the roadside. A demon insect…