Poetry
Old Crow
The Porcupine caribou took a dive / a quill’s breadth above the 66th / / just as the lake disappeared / ...
Apartment K
He used a fire escape to walk out of your life. / / Back inside, the floors are polished, / the heartbreak is clean. / / You sit with a...
349
It is ivory, or marble — / Some blinding material else, / Some godbone out of the / Shadow of a singularity — / / It is fulminant, impossible, / Cleaving the water...
Heaven
My father enters heaven, / smiling his big smile, the one that could have signaled pain. / Let’s get you hooked up, they say. The place buzzes with sexy uniforms. / Dialysis...
Waking
The clock falls back and the cat / doesn’t give a damn about the hour. / She howls at five and five-ten; she howls again / at five-twenty and six. She knows...
Religious Studies
for Carl Ridd, 1929 – 2003 / / His orange sweater damaged your hearing / it was that loud. Outside the / diesel of Greyhound buses and plebes / too poor to fly....
maskihky words/medicine words
kayâsago, a long, long time ago / kistêsinâw Our Elder Brother / kî-pimohtêw walked and walked kî-pimohtêw / kî-pimohtêw the world into being / leaving pathways for us to follow / but...
Words under vertigo
like a falling debris from a construction site / slowly committing suicide as it touches / the ground, again I looked up / / to witness how words magnetized the tongue...
Soraya
1. / / Excluding pork, shellfish, milk, and rattan, / we rationalize tanagers tanning in the tonga, / Soraya, tam tam rousing gravid tamagotchi. / I collect utility knives vaccinating me...