Water Delivery Oaxaca, February 13, 2025 12:30amI should clean up the freesias in that vase.The blossoms are falling off the stems.They don’t smell as strongly this year as they did last year.But at least I have them. I searched in the market Sunday.There was only one woman with a few tattered bunches. No gardenias this …
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May 3rd
May 3rdAlders ring the pasture, unfurl trembling new-green leaves above pink salmon berry flowers.I stand with my arms folded on the half door of the stall.At my back, stored hay that smells like last summer’s heat remembered. The sheep arrange themselves at the mangers. Everyone shoving except for the old ram whose stiff knees counsel …
Salt & Longing
Salt and Longingpansies, pensées, senses.thoughts— a bouquet of violets,a violence of violets.voile,voice, voices on my radio.radio waves, waves on the beach head,brain head. my bullying brain carried off by the tidal bore.how many times will you acceptmy ungenerous impulseto control your voice. my unvoiced vowels.after frustration, incoherence.incandescent syntax of fury.wrath: such a pretty word for …
Praise Dream
Praise Dream I praise the dream world where black is now pinkand navy blue never appearsexcept in the delicate shells of tiny bivalves.A world where men dreambut women dream harderbecauseit is harder to bear life new life than the same old life.We dream harder and more often. We do not lock our dreams into nightgowns.We …
A Girl
A Girl A girl knows it is best, in the summer,to be out in the alleybefore morning coffeebrings her mother’s grievancesinto clear focus. A girl hides behind a camelliabush waiting breathlesslyfor her best friend’s brotherwho will laterdrop a spider down the back of her shirt. A girl can be bought off for two quarters and …