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Ode to the Not-Here
May 10, 2025

Love, before loss, is an ode to here:
the softness of shampooed fur,
the quickening of a thousand nerve endings
in each fingertip each time you pet him,
the scratch of paws running to greet you.

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Leaves of Grass
April 14, 2025

I abhor the grass, the leaves that turn to blades
under the whetstone of heat, the worms, blind
and desperate and slippery, that wriggle forth
in the wet, the sucking of mud on bare feet…

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What AI Still Can’t Do
March 30, 2025

Write a poem that drops me to my knees.
Strike me square in the face with a fist of birdsong.
Torture me to orgasm with silk.

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Picnic, America, 2025
March 22, 2025

Wrapped in moss like a layer of new skin
over a third-degree burn, the hills invite us
for a picnic. Rain has washed out the stains..

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Earthquake
March 18, 2025

Wet and moonless, the Japanese maple drips her pigment
onto a desolate, metal halide-lit stretch of road, until
pink-red rivulets parade ostentatiously toward…

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Mere Survival
December 21, 2024

It must take a certain manic energy, for an Arctic Tern to travel
25,000 miles a year, over every ocean and near every continent
on Earth, as though there were no borders, no checkpoints, no…

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Ars Poetica
November 24, 2024

The first time I was called a poet, I took offense,
for poetry is good for nothing: it neither
makes love nor wages war, nor pays the bills.

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Meditations on the Moon
September 29, 2024

The moon, cold and pockmarked and hard,
is not dainty.

The moon belches starlight,
has no gender.

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Ode to the Last Dollop
September 15, 2024

You may think it inconsequential that an empty
tube of toothpaste is not, if pressed, empty,
but has more to give of itself. You may prefer
odes to lofty ideas, or nature, or love…

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Guangdon
December 26, 2023

In Guangdon Province a young father rises early
for work at Doubleeagle Industry Limited, where

he operates the plastic-injection molding machine.
It is rote, if loud and dangerous work…

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