you and i / still rose // meteorically Continue reading
Tag Archives: surreal
I wrote you a note saying, “I won’t be back for a while” (Or, “The Cicada’s Song”)
“another drink for both of us?” Continue reading
a pin through
I find calendar flowers / boring // you spend lunchtime / counting quarters Continue reading
Kissaten
He liked to listen to the sound the stirrer made when it clinked against the glass cylinder. It reminded him of the sound of a bottle rolling against a wooden floor. Continue reading
Panther-Hawk
Your mother / circles the shitty diner, cigarette starting a fire Continue reading
self-portrait with wooden camera
I’m shooting Roosevelt’s ghost / in a mongoose coat Continue reading
Soñé Que Soñaba Desperté (I dreamt I dreamt I awoke)
The mouth clicked and sobbed in its sleep. I learned to swallow its breath, a gray applause, as it pooled between my shoulders and jaw. When it woke me up, it whined—a pleading homunculus, a child begging for her bath. Continue reading
4 bad poems
If the wind thinks / it can win / it’s right Continue reading
Hemingway
“The bull doesn’t always lose?” Continue reading
desert hotel bathrooms
the smell of smoke from a burning Godzilla model reminds me / there’s even a distance between a glass eyeball and the sun Continue reading