Boaz
the tour bus thu-thunks past men with hand-scythes toiling in the wheat fields / I wonder if something could be gleaned from living the...
Mystery
a beggar crouches outside the tenements in the drizzling rain / blanket pulled over his head he waves an empty bowl to the sky / raises...
You Color Me In
when you walked up to me carrying a box of crayons I didn't know what to think "what are they for" I asked you but you wouldn't answer...
Cigarette
to the cigarette drowning in yesterday's rainwater: I too burned only to drown in the face of one I didn't know I needed I too have been...
Breathing Beijing
cigarette smoke sifts through a cellophane sky the ramshackle siheyuans gray-gabled and low slump in the yellow light of sunset / a...
Shadow
the way my brother eats his toast each morning is like this he consumes it / honey-laden from the center outwards and he always throws...
Traffic Lights at 3 AM
fulfill their duties still reflect red / then green in the puddles in the empty street it is a dewy morning one wonders if there will be...
Equilibrium
I like my baths to be scalding so that when I enter the water its heat passes into me as my cold passes also into it my father says he’s...
My Father only Sees in Black and White
when my dad pulls out the photo album it's like he grows another set of lips "there's Dolores she must be only five here and that must be...
High School Graduation
another signpost in the ground of time well what if I told you Father Time doesn't give a damn when you go to college / when you're born...
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