Poetry
Poem of the Week
We boarded a ferry eager for foaming water rushing toward our feet.
Poetry
Fidel narrates the home video: See the women on the beach? Beauty.
Poem of the Week
Staring down the barrel of a black gun I forget I’m no longer just a boy.
Poetry
I was tracing my finger along his hoodied back, to draw the route.
Poem of the Week
We claw over earth, unfurling flowers, knit so close we know power.
Poem of the Week
Let us not forget the desuetude of nailed-shut carousels.
Poetry
David, I don’t know how to say this, but I didn’t think you’d make it.
Poem of the Week
I was born hating paths, apostasy. We came alive wrong for union.
Poem of the Week
Puppets share wine. A dog dressed in a red gown growls.
Poem of the Week
The places in between places are like countries themselves.
Poetry
I have never seen a bird, but I tell stories of creatures that walk the sky.
Poem of the Week
Surrender me to shallows and the salt gallop of a rising surf.
Poem of the Week
That’s how we knew our belonging and how we knew it wouldn’t last.
Poem of the Week
And jesse, the smart bombs do not recognize the babies.
Poetry
Please look away from Mars dangling so angry in so much darkness.
Poem of the Week
Now he’s grazing my books. The Bible is his favorite so far. He is a goat.
Poetry
Our dog had held down what we had by pressing his belly to the floors.
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Frail as a breath, it broke at once, leaving a tiny kiss in my fingers.
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It commands your presence, mocking your impatience with its steam.
Poem of the Week
Floods of faces, no sign of a pathway toward Bethlehem, shut off by blizzard.
Poem of the Week
It’s been months since the cat died and still we find her hair.
Poetry
I felt nothing, which was cool, totally cool with me. For my blood was cola.
Poem of the Week
Every touch electric, every taste you, every smell, every cry.
Poem of the Week
If the landlord tells you not to hang a mirror in that room, do not.
