February 6, 2018
Stripped
“You gonna clean my balls?” my grandmother asks, slowly sliding into the closest espresso stained wooden chair. I hold my breath. She sees. “Somebody’s got to do it & damn […]
July 21, 2017
Love in the Time of Disconnect(ing)
You might get out through all the waves and rocks Into the middle of the poem to touch them But when you’ve tried the blessed water long Enough to […]
June 5, 2017
Touchscreen Headstone: Speculations on the Digital Afterlife
“Eterni.me wants to rely on the real substance of twenty-first-century life: online activity. There are other companies that offer related services: Legacy Locker and Entrustnet allow users to nominate an […]
February 23, 2017
On Difficult Loves
November 30, 2016
Strangers Meant (to be) Un-stranged
Your map is marred by borders that become a sieve of history, straining the wild from the willing. Missions and malls encroach your sun swathed villitas where flowers battle […]
October 28, 2016
Here the World Drowns
Then I remembered: Mama wasn’t gone but safe, in her bed, turning in sleep. It was I who went away—from Chopin in the bones, palms heavy with dates like dark purple […]
September 22, 2015
On the Wings of a Power Ballad: Atonement and Yom Kippur
* Phoenix the pyre the self-resurrected Obscures everything ardently briefly with ash —“Zone,” Guillaume Apollinaire When I fast on Yom Kippur, my prayers sound like this. In the film Under […]
September 18, 2015
Not-Quite Goodbye (Aseret Yemei Teshuva)
I mean, you must take living so seriously that even […]