Poetry
tree and flower
Tender and charming / Peach blossoms fallen / Into a transparent dream / On the unmowed lawn / Whose snoring disturbs / The wakening leaves / I would like to give them...
the bus lurches
The bus lurches and an old woman / falls into the aisle. People’s faces mimic / out-rushing tides as they help / her back to her seat. She turns / her eyes...
dead leaves
At opening of September it appears / there’s twice as many leaves as there had been / in the last week of August: they increase / with every day and hour, and...
arrival
Here is no destination, / but the hazy finale of a hasty departure. / My half-baked attempt / to escape a conspiracy of / normalcy; drift for a time / on the...
elle, vertige
elle, vertige prise au sternum / / déboulements avachis à l’intermède de la / / conscience à même la rosée des promesses /...
flotilla
I’m beginning to worry the bay is nothing but the night. / / I know how darkness checks a wind. / Letting only moonlight pool and spread / Like the negative...
innocence
a pantoum / / We stain the vision with what we think we know. / I remember myself as a child, touching roses / On the other side of the street...
the golden hour
The sun isn’t going to kill me as / I walk down the boundary road in 1963, / / kick stones, dust rises, the light shifts / around my busy feet....
tehuana brides
Self Portrait as a Tehuana, 1943 and Self Portrait, 1948. / / Two self-portraits in elaborate Tehuana headdress / Two disembodied faces. Frida’s famous / penetrating gaze, dark eyebrows, faint moustache...