Cicada Summer
Like cicadas, I just want to cry and cry too:
through the whole month of June, I unleashed
gnarls of heartache from my throat
until the...
Scientists Determine Time Perception Varies Between Animals
Start with a flashing light, electrodes—and measure how quickly perceptionshifts the light solid—call it timescale: a finer mesh,a...
Show Me, Earth, Your Day
under your cerulean umbrella
with its silver-spoked
bluejay roads, open my eyes, Eos.
Earth of jazzy oceans scatting &
frolicking, daydreams frothy
as giggling clouds,...
The Kids Don’t Want Our Stuff
Throw away your antique chair, crushedvelvet cradling grandma’s slightskeleton like a pearl—Youbalanced carefullyon her ancient unbendingknees. Give awaythe bric-a-brac,...
Further Down
To reach below
turquoise waves and snapping teeth
you took it into you
You eat breath, hungry
like a singer
Moving all the way down
in long strokes
away from...
Once More in the Depths
I miss you, blue-haired boy, vanished againlike the ripple of a skipped stone. I havenever understood your leaving— a thingthat...
3,000 Turns Against Death
When Donne said Death, thou shalt die,he surrounded it with commas, breath
through the barrier, the first wardagainst the unbearable. Second: this
tongue...
Scheherazade Finishes
In 1,001 Arabian Nights, the storyteller fights for her life
by dreaming up cliffhanger after cliffhanger. She is
trying not to be loved. Each night,...
