Heat HazeI want salt’s tenderness and the taste of your flesh on my tongue. The softness of peaches in summer when the days are too long. I want oregano and lemons. The sweet bitterness of tonic and lime pulling the summer heat out of my skin.I want the musk of sun-warmed blackberries eaten while standing …
Category Archives: Poetry
Pariah Dog
Pariah Dog this rangy dog that you all assume is homeless is actually homeward boundat the end of the night.this pariah dog, known to me only as ‘dog” dog, sit dog, lie down dog, get away dog, do you want to come into the garden to sleep for in the sun for an hour?deep in …
Sonnet, circa 2024.
Sonnet, circa 2024Hold a leaking pen over an inadequate notebook. Chew on the derivation of “grace” from the Latin gratis—meaning pleasing. Seek a place for “apostle” in description of a wren. Stand in a mist looking for a verb to describe the lightness of the raindrops. Break a line against the breath, carry on long …
Resurrection
ResurrectionEven our own sun will, one day, leave its ordained round of the skyno longer crossing the Milky Way or shining only on the moon’s bright side.But wandering off into the weedsto lie down and rest,Say to us—no, no you go ahead.In the dark, waiting,time will tumble unstuck from the clock face.We will forgethow to …
Catherine Wheel
Catherine WheelI live in a pyrotechnic universe garish with a bright mathematics that allows me to calculate how much it has cost meto buy Rita Hayworth’s second wedding dress,some purple fairy lights to hang from my umbrella,and a pair of ruby slippers that will take me anywhere but home.By 3am, I have lost my mother’s …