May 1, 2016
Dove
A pestilence of doves descends, an idiocy of fowl, sister of the pigeon, comrade Of the seagull and all rats with wings. The lawn is seeded with cereal of a […]
May 1, 2016
[Channels]
Assuming you are an ordinary American day, here are some words you might meet: Heaven, Heinz Ketchup, Satellite Radio, Freedom, Alabaster, Sippy Cup, Meanwhile: “The car had started moving very […]
May 1, 2016
Witness
The suburbs dry out. And in truly rural places, pavement breaks up, goes back to the land. Given enough time, buildings slouch with the bedrock. Shingles and tar paper curl […]
May 1, 2016
Repository
1 I woke at 3 a.m. because my right ear itched, as though I’d been swimming or a friend had yelled a secret into my hair. I live in a […]
May 1, 2016
Vanities
Vanity, vanity, of vanities … everything on the face of the earth is vanishing. — Mahmoud Darwish, from Eleven Planets We eat of food and its unseen worlds, biota for […]
May 1, 2016
[The Afterlife]
Beneath the surface in a stew The exact size of the continent is a mother of debate. Six times the amount of plankton. Doesn’t biodegrade, it just breaks into smaller […]
May 1, 2016
Myotis lucifugus
To be “mouse-eared” and “light-fearing,” hold in corners, require the warmth of others, half a million in winter. If there’s a creature of the cabinet, the eave, the tucked-away hearth, […]
May 1, 2016
In a Small Park with Bench, Jacaranda, and Bird’s Skull
A woman was praying for a clump of fern to sprout or otherwise make a miraculous appearance on the ground Beside her, to soften the harsh linearity of the concrete […]
May 1, 2016
Shepherd’s Purse
Capsella bursa-pastoris, L. Shepherd’s purse, from the seedpods shaped like satchels, shaped like hearts So many as to be invisible in their plentitude, these tiny trodden cresses populate pastures and […]
May 1, 2016
[Wikipedia, or the Late Style of Orpheus]
—Text quoted from Wikipedia article “Great Pacific garbage patch.” Text bolded by poet Sam Taylor. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre […]