Terns carry no pass- port, respect no borders, write long-titled haiku - Read The Family-Separation Files here
I am no less a propagandist than you. I understand the impulse to spend hours at a sleepy train station for the chance to...
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;
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
Last night I dreamt of the perfect opening line to a poem that would, I had no doubt, piece back together the crumbling world. It was a line that drew you in, breathless, that made you drop everything—coffee, that online shopping cart one click from arriving at your door—and pay...
Mind abuzz, body stiff, I take my meds and wait for rest. For by now the clouds have come and gone and brought no rain, the dishes are put away, all juice squeezed from the day...
“The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.” - Wayne Dyer I have mistaken Ragweed for Goldenrod, alleyways for gardens, watched th
If I had my way, I suppose there would be no shorelines, no dying light sinking into bruised-blue lakes, no dead poets, no Libraries of Alexandria...
I have put pen to much that I ought not have written, including, perhaps, these very words. I have mistaken Ragweed for Goldenrod, alleyways for gardens, watched them torn out,
Dearest, I meant to prove myself worthy of every challenge, up to death itself. The day began with feats of strength, like getting out of bed and bru
You needn't believe in ghosts to dance with them. Just ask the Robin napping in the quiet of a broken fountain, drunk on jasmine and sugar. Ask dr
To write love poems when this world’s a mess is like, depending on your point of view, finding jasmine on the moon—an excess of joy where all is bleak—or dreams of blue sky at night, of food in famine...
