Poetry
does being queer engender a queer syntax?
the inconvenient problematics of the coloured fag. / thus this aesthetic of fracture and fragment. / across many cultures, the nobility of surrender. / literary shards stuck wholesale in the throat. /...
Keep It Dark
Who are the goddesses who fell in love / with each other? Which ones were punished / or celebrated with star-dom—captives / flung into the sky to cast nets of light /...
Marian’s Memorial, Plug-In Gallery
One day this will be all of us, / everyone I know and all that’s left: / sitting on plastic chairs in a dim / gallery room, sensible shoes, precise / new...
Dog-and-Pony Show
Let your great-great-grandma’s god’s / dogma be your seeing eye / / and your hearing ear dog (good / boy!) and let its stride guide you / / to let...
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Modern Mythologies
Now let us tell each other many myths / in this modern era, this plaguy drag of years / marching ever toward the slow heat-death / of the unspiralling universe— / ...
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The Truth about Starlight
Last days of a semester spent teaching language, the semantics / of signifiers, to students, online 24/7, their minds soaking / in a marinade of abbreviated voices, twitter and text / rendering...
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Past Tense
Long before still images gathered into reels, / faked and raked movement across canvas screens, / before our minds grew magnetic, and we unfurled / how the unseen tether held Earth to...
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Kitchen, Vicarious
The summer that dolphins were found to have a self-concept, I housesat. / I read about them, turning before the glass, / ...
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Design Theory
Stencil your hand on the cave wall; / then come, let’s play cards. Mind the fire. / / We measure time with isotopes. Since 1950, anyway. / Before that, we faked...