PANGAKO Pangako: (n.) Tagalog for ‘promise’. The colonizer’s favorite color is narcissus white. Selfishly stab the point of a pole into a...

LOVESICK you tell yourself that you are immune to silver-tongued boys and their vanilla prose, but you still read them like they are...

Sofa at the Eatery For the sofa at the eatery, all are equal. How law of the land is supposed to be, love of the land is supposed to be....

The Small Steps toward Ascension Heaven is a sandbox. Shovel such grains. Malleable, malleable: A castle scooped compels the pulse of...

Space Cake Weightless, floating away in uninterrupted time Living life in moments as they come my way Travelling in space and counting...

YOUR JOURNEY MAN I figured there was a way to get to you. With my inner GPS. My natural farm-fed Mapquest. I was like this compass in...

Worth Remembering Why are we fascinated by lost battles, especially those with Nazis? They were experts at pain, even when they shot at...

This One's On The House The gutters are clean, since the rain ended. The sky clears at dawn. There was a fight; people said things they...

Nicaragua It’s all about water here, but I can’t drink it, not even if it’s burned over the stove. Rain burns too, and feels like gel,...

grief of my griefs I had a dream where I went to where you’re resting now & every crevice in the cemetery was filled with sand. I...

Bridge Bridge beheld, Flowing to the verdant meadow Flowerful, Fading Where I was buried Lost in a universe within an embrace, Seeking...

walking home after a poetry reading after Cats Musings poetry reading at New West past houses like sleeping faces beside shadowed trees...

reasons for sharing then the drums begin in the square horns // merriment i look around for someone to smile at // with ...

AMBIVALENT IMMIGRANT read me forwards and backwards I am happy to be here a too-simple truth I swallow guilt useless to crumple and throw...

Does this Darkness have a name? Each minute, this Darkness swallows women and men alike Each minute, these twenty-four human beings are...

Inkles The inkles Behind the wattle And concertina The blood And the dead roads The brown ice Thawing and grimey The pine cones hanged to...

Today, I told someone about you. Today, for the first time in a long time, I told someone about you. I said your name and felt my heart...

WHICH NOW Touch the spines in the library, open the brains. Dusty, mildewed pages, knife-edged. Which now are you living in? What you...

I love you I am the one who's up all night thinking of you, letting my imagination run wild with dreamscapes in some other world, a...

The Creation Story When I saw her, it was like the Paschal Mystery I fell in love that sizzling summer day, A day I shall remember in my...