Poetry
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Last Father’s Day
You craved mussels when you were dying. The dexamethasone made you ravenous in your first last weeks. We wanted to bring you home for Father’s Day, treat you to a rare feast...
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Pickle Jar Love Poem
I am fascinated by your dog’s ability to find the filthiest corner of the earth & bury her face in it. Lodestar of trash. Always so verklempt to be pulled away from...
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This Counterfeit Year
There’s a stochastic parrot in the tree of life. he’s eating clay to calm himself; he wants to turn the brackish lagoon of his acidic, oracular mouth into a better semblance of...
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After We Marry and Head West
I will wear the dress you bought me in Omaha: pin-prick flowers, rick rack trim. Of my two moods—stoic, verklempt—I will choose the former, become my tin-type self: neo-homesteader in scuffed boots,...
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Fundament
Winner of the 2023 Foster Poetry Prize / / Reciprocity says let me love you and I’ll let you love me. I’ll taste your criticisms so long as you’ll lick my praises....
Matching Red Flower Barbie Sundress, a Parting Gift
Dear Artist, / This piece reminds when I was little, I found a songbird bleeding from its mouth under my window. Lost direction. My first deathtouch. First brush. Choke (d) chirp. I...
the night sky is an arcade game
the night sky is an arcade game, pixelated with stars. we bleed ultraviolet, nova hearts, sunspots in our eyes: clutch for cosmic strings. divided by quarters, by phases & cycles of hope....
The Healer
Once my lower duplex neighbor left me a used teabag. Once she dropped off a handful of weeds, roots and all. Once she slipped me a newspaper clip about fatal bee allergies....