Jacaranda
By Poetry Issue 103
not in weakness, but in tender
resolution to give way, be broken. . .
Lapsang Souchong
By Poetry Issue 103
The kettle begins to sing
the one note of its one song.
The day becomes itself beyond
the glass of the kitchen window.
Aubade
By Poetry Issue 103
This silence before
love pulls itself
apart, against
the current of its own
longing, is the most terrible
silence I know.