Penuel
By Poetry Issue 121
Pied Beauty
By Poetry Issue 121
I am so attractive / to you said the drunk / boy.
Read MoreTikTok
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The meme says you chaos with your hips.
Read MoreShevirah
By Poetry Issue 121
I am an open grave.
Read MoreLetter to Sophie after the C-Section
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Let’s call your body cotton
Read MoreBruegel’s The Hunters in the Snow
By Poetry Issue 121
The hunt has been unsuccessful, as even / the dogs know.
Read MoreThe Pointing Instinct & How to Cultivate It
By Poetry Issue 121
The pointing instinct has always been controversial.
Read MoreMy Father Tells Me about His Dreams
By Poetry Issue 121
Sometimes he is back in our house in Anaheim, / sometimes with his family in Taiwan.
Read MoreAubade with Spontaneous Combustion
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I’m not even dressed before the pope
asks me for a lifelong yes.
Pork & Cigarettes (circa 1987)
By Poetry Issue 121
The cashier read it and then handed me,
a ten-year-old boy, a pack of smokes.