Poetry
Excerpt from Antoinette: An Opera
(Beginnings of ball scene) / / du Motier: (bowing a bit too low) Your Highness. / / Louis: Who’s this? / / Marie: Gilbert du Motier. He is one...
Studying a Note to Self
There is a wound and when no one is looking / I lick it. Salt can be metaphor. / I will make your steak taste better? / ...
I Love You AC Slater
1. / AC Slater glides into the room, / he smiles, dimples / break you in two / you are in love, he shoots / a finger gun at you / and...
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...
Contest Winner
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— / ...
Contest Winner
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...