November 21, 2017
That Time I Fell in Love with Gargantua (Is Always Now)
In a way, I learned to love my home better by saying goodbye to it… For so long I had alternated between hating and cherishing it; now, finally, I […]
November 9, 2017
She’s Full of Stars: For Olivia Gomez de la Garza Cisneros
I watched her point to the incense dish from which someone swept all the ashes up. Asking if she recognized us. Because that is what the living want: thinking it […]
October 30, 2017
If Zero-Point Energy + Infinite Timelines Then
All your timelines lead to more timelines, and none of them have an inch of empty space. And so do his, my sweetest friend. Even if he denies this. He who […]
October 16, 2017
“THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW I GOT TO LIVE”: On Lynn Melnick & Surviving the Landscape
I don’t even know you. Sure, I do the most uncareful things when I’m miles from here. It’s all that freedom I don’t recognize. —Lynn Melnick, “Landscape with […]
October 9, 2017
Unapologetically Stepping In: Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence
I didn’t emerge well-trained into this savage vista because all the houseplants were succulent, and, while anyone could witness rot writ all over my blighted arrangement, no one stepped […]
September 30, 2017
On Atonement & The Year for which We Are Asking
On Yom Kippur, we ask that we are written into The Book of Life for one more year. And in thinking of The Book, I keep returning to this […]
September 26, 2017
Returning to New Houses We Rebuild Together
Yesterday, you began this essay with: She bears the wood and the forgotten knowledge of the wood, carries its many names, a weight that brings the poet no unity. And […]
September 21, 2017
This Rosh Hashanah, We Throw the Door Open
To go home, leave crumbs. When the wood circles you back here instead, let the lost and the impossible ripen in you, ripen and go. “What is Growing […]
September 8, 2017
Mix-Tape II: Through Neon Lens, Darkly
A month before Donald Trump won the election in 2016, Entropy Magazine ran poet and humorist Holly Burdorff’s experimental piece “What Spills Out When Torn in Two // Reality in […]
August 31, 2017
Strange & Endlessly Afoot at the Circle K
Imagine our future selves as the much-harder-to-follow laws of us. Because writing a new poem requires a future self, which is not the same thing as a new self […]
August 22, 2017
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a President Looking at an Eclipse
(1) In the eye of the eclipse, he sought the loyalty of Comey, the bears of Betsy DeVos, and the phantom tapping of his own phones. The sun: Anoint […]
August 16, 2017
To Mi Ciela, My Lion’s Laugh-Love, My Little Panpipe
Dear niece. Dear eight-year-old asker of pointed questions and WHY and WHY again. I wish I had answers for you today. I wish you lived closer or that I could […]