Poetry

Self-Portrait as M.C. Escher Drawings

Kaleidoscopes in the eyes fracture her clavicles onto the ceiling, his stubble projected onto the wall across the room. Flower vases hang in the air. Everything is where nothing is. It’s all spilling, doubling back—material materializing. I reach...

Unhinged

Desperationis the goth cousin of zany,zany is mania’sslutty little sister,and the tiny producersliving behind my eyesare having a...

The Art of the Found Poem: Interview With Nazifa Islam

Nazifa Islam is the author of the poetry collections Searching for a Pulse (Whitepoint Press, 2013) and Forlorn...

Rungs for Birds

The process of growing brancheslooks painful,brutal even.I gaze upat this treeand the branches arespears.Did they erupt from the...

What We Do When the Power Comes Back On

Empty the freezer of meats in foil, many from lost origins. Have we eaten lion? Does the black bear howl...

We Didn’t Pick This Love

a found poem: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery Our crisp sere old lovewas no glorious glad homeof scarlet and gold virtue. It was a nondescriptblue sky with...

Thinking About the Horses

Afternoon’s the best time to see them, when the morning feeding is over and most of the day’s work is finished, only the long hours before night...

On Sleep

A night blacker than Adam’s cat, a thousand stars firing fiercely, some misguided winds at rest in a garden ... I often wake before dawn, made feebleminded with...

vulnerability, the way you like it (me)

I peel                                         the orange because you sighed                         at my request         for you               your hands                         gently ripping me apart I peel                                        the skin                                 bruised -                                 blood under the skin                 am I that...

Means of Transport

It’s assumed that when we die we fly or float away. I’ve never heard it said that the soul walks out the door like it’s going to 7-11 for...

Never Song

The city’s flow is predictable up to a point like smoke from a cigarette. Youth bloom. Pesticides and ground cover fail. My heart is as empty as the zoo, defunded, some of what...