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Terminal
Not the shaded table by the pool where I point out a hummingbird eating nectar and my son asks, “You mean like I eat pizza?”
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Lahaina
I remember coffee-flavored ice cream at the Royal Scoop, how it made me long to be old enough to drink espresso like Dad. I remember stepping off the plane into the sweet humid air, the tissue-paper feel of the Lei around my neck,
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Anthropocene
Is it wrong to love this world like a newborn swaddled
in peach skin, beech-tree bark, silt at the mouth of a
stream whose headwater is starlight, is ocean-honey,
is upwell of grief? World we once called mother, how
we have aged you, your fires and floods unfamiliar now,
your Tradewinds sighs of grief, signs of awful things come
to pass: you are as though reborn in our image, gods who
invented gods to quiet our minds and
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Free Time
Between Singularity and Singularity,
between dawn and dusk, between
errand and meeting, between
dream and nightmare there is
the flicker of free time, the choice
to write sonnet or free verse, to carry
or be carried away by burdens, by joy.
But the passing moment passes, time
snuffs out time: so I decree that my
tombstone be an unfinished thought,
a civilization in ruin, a scribble in dust
carried off by a wind long-since died-
down, its own epitaph
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Ode to My Favorite Poetry Podcast, Now Featuring a Car Commercial
I’ve come to take for granted so much--billboards and product placements, sponsored posts disguised as honest-to-goodness journalism, apps making me the product I can search and...
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I Fear Nothing More Than Wasting Time
I'll be brief, for we are both busy and the calendar Gods have laid waste to that idyllic peace which, if we're honest, is as foreign to our forebears as to us.
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You Tell a Story to Prove We're Doomed
But the thing about the apologue of the frog in boiling water is that it's scientifically false
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Self-Care
"Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.” - Shoshana Zuboff
If no one but me
profits from this walk
in the woods,
what does it say
that I'm no good
at making money?
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Puzzle
The rain falls like puzzle pieces dumped from a satin bag in the sky. Excited, my son turns each droplet in his hands...
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The Spirit of the Law vs the Letter of the Law: After Reading 'The Family-Separation Files' About the Trump Administration's Zero-Tolerance Immigration Policy
Terns carry no pass-
port, respect no borders, write
long-titled haiku
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Read The Family-Separation Files here
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People
Falling in love is like swallowing grains of sand to recover the pebble you skipped across the pond by your childhood home, the ripples setting in motion every marvel, every horror of your life;
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Distraction
After work, I rest in the wispy warmth of a waning December sun. On the table by the window, piles of half-read books leer at me and I at them. In the fading light, a hawk swoops by, hungry. Hungry, I reach for my phone; looking down, I spot a pile of dust, make a note to sweep it up