Category: Poetry

Out of the tunnel of dream I crawled, trailing the mud of fear and hope its seaweed and debris Out on the boat of my body I floated through underground cavern t...

I was certain it was safe so you came in the window, and while I learned how to recover from an earthquake that might not visit again in my lifetime you were ma...

  I love the rain when the rain fills the river, when the rain fills the river, and the river starts to run, and the willow branches read the braille of ra...

  A dream of gun towers and razor wire. I have told you my story as if asleep. These metal chairs. This gymnasium. Face to face. Knee to knee. My story asl...

  Once upon a time, there was a country made of Swiss cheese far, far away, so far, the cheese never made it to our stores. We knew that Swiss cheese exist...

  Moments after, high on destruction, We built towers with Legos against the blue Glare of the television screen and flew wing-bent hands Through the plast...

  An elegant mousse, a cat’s tongue biscuit, the taste of black currants I knew as a child. I am in England when I discover they are illegal at home, have ...

                        In English, ‘hemlock’ refers not only to poison hemlock, but to water hemlock, hemlock water dropwort, lesser hemlock (fool’...

  In the aftermath of the flood that freed the zoo animals in a city big as Detroit on the other side of the world, the gates clattered and the mud bloomed...

  the hardest part           about growing orchids          ...