Poetry
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...
Confession
“I live” / used to say / having no way / stood in front of “i” / pointing the gun — which the shooting was by / right to the heart / pushed the...
The world is a bad, bad place:
The world is a bad, bad place / / And I know / Oh, I would know! / / Born backwards / big on my birthday / crawled cringing to...
Elsipogtog #7
day falls away to dusk twilight and still you resist standing still ogitchidaa’ikawe warrior woman jingle dress dancer hand drummer flag carrier smudge smudger pray-ers pray for continued life in the east...