Poetry

Tearjerker Downspout from the gargoyle’s mouth, a city’s sediment that escaped quenching. What once was rainwater through a most baffling sequence of events               is now blood. The metamorphosis explained by the days...

The Editor Attempts Bailar I dance flamenco the way a giraffestaggers after being shot with a tranquilizer.I dance flamenco only slightly more gracefullythan my washing...

April 22: Birthday of Charles Mingus and Louise Glück “writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance” –Louise Glück Days bop along atop each other   like ragtag treetops  or like highway-side...

Under Artificial Light For a second the shadow        watered a stain on the paper. You gave me    these words  so I must’ve nudged...

Inside the pouch of what will be another day, we cling        love makes her parody of us          Most orifices we close in sleep, as we...

  EMILY AS I PREPARE THE MEAL-KIT HOISIN PORK SLOPPY JOES I want the painkillers our dog is taking.I want a new soul out of nothing.Emily...

  Diagram of Parts Proves Love Is Others have come, and thenthey have left me. I have spent entire nights dreamingof broken glass, and grown tired. Until the...

But for a Moment The luscious green trees Tall and towering Over bright orange flowers Sway in the breeze Leonardo H Chung is a freshman attending Korea International School...

The Doorway of Ocean I’m under too much… And the little shearwater, the cormorant crossing. I was down by the… And you said this coldness, just a...

Poem with a Wall between East and West It fell when I was four years old.In the stacks of National Geographic at my grandmother’s house, a...