August 31, 2023
Bus Stop Promenade
it’s not as if I chose it this bag of organs I carry badly or so I think before the crowd of watchful laborers and joggers congregating at the bus […]
August 31, 2023
Aubade Where Things Are Pretty Good Actually
The idea that every fallen leaf is not unique, reduced into a name like maple and understood as simple variation on a theme, is just a trick of speaking — in […]
August 31, 2023
An Exemplar
Whilst the birds harmoniously deliciate the Air, I learn to open the oven door. Be the leaf, be the leaf, is what I heard in the lizard’s shadow. I don’t […]
August 31, 2023
The Moon
Held together with Velcro and elastic and breathable synthetic black cloth, I clack. The moon hangs over the playing field behind a church and will not photograph. It is not […]
August 31, 2023
Dog
The policeman was going to shoot my dog. I was begging him not to shoot. We were lost. We are lost. I have not recovered from the surgeries. My wife […]
August 31, 2023
Trans People of the Past
The Kenyon Review · “Trans People of the Past” by Micheal M. Weinstein At some point you must’ve stood stunned in a room and looked down at your hands. I […]
August 31, 2023
Dead Name
The Kenyon Review · “Dead Name” by Michael M. Weinstein nobody peeled the oranges but they open wings and carapace dance on the updrafts slacken on down their musk bright […]
August 31, 2023
The Similarity of Bodies
You tore up my note, your morning opened with Nora’s voice like a play that again you won’t be directing, and outside the light was blank and coloring the insistent […]
August 31, 2023
Tableaux
The Kenyon Review · “Tableaux” by Brook S. Corfman In Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film La Belle et la Bête, a steward almost walks under a ladder, is told not to, […]
August 31, 2023
Dicentra Spectabilis
The Kenyon Review · “Dicentra Spectabilis” by Brook S. Corfman The moon is not real; neither is the soul. You can take a bleeding heart from its stalk and leave […]
August 31, 2023
Blue or Green Poem
The Kenyon Review · “Blue or Green Poem” by Brook S, Corfman Blue, which appears only when enough water is gathered together. The day I first took half of the […]
August 31, 2023
The Plague of Blood
The Kenyon Review · “The Plague of Blood” by Julie Marie Wade Something happened I couldn’t have told you then. — Joan Larkin Blood is the door that swings open and […]