Poetry
New Year’s Eve fireworks at the Forks
River and bridge / and things that hover over: / smoke, / helicopter, / ...
okada
months after the earthquake / inside the exclusion zone / the water has hardened to mud / there are bodies still / there is a man in white pants & a white...
Sinuosity: a found and erased poem
A river’s sinuosity is its tendency to move / back and forth across the floodplain, / in an S-shaped pattern, over time, leaving behind / scars of where the river channel once...
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The mussel hunters of Kangiqsujuaq
Just half an hour, the narrator explains, / until the tide returns. I watch the hunters / work to pierce an aperture, human-sized, / / in the ocean's crumpled mantle. I...
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le Cirque
In the dream I have head lice— / the only girl in the troupe thus disordered, / diseased. I share a soft room / / covered in mattresses. No one minds...
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Medusa Rides the Greyhound
Everything is rain. / Ocean and land have flipped / for one another. Day's becoming night / and I swear I see a hydra swim up to my window. / He looks...
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mutagen
the first night of the first time she is sold, / / she imagines herself becoming a tree, undergoing / strange metamorphosis, / / daphne and peneus both. shapes herself...
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Lip Point for Bearded Women
Board Meeting Minutes: Fiscal Moon, 2078, Skyrise / / Hinky corporate suits toil / whisper fervent words / over glossy boardroom tables, / pray to politicians, shareholders / and two barely...
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Amber Alert
This wavering sky and dust-up / leaf-slinging winds charcoaled as massed / crows chasing Tippi Hedren, or the / / clawed rail line whir of cloud bellies / bearded with rain....