How to Deprogram a Parent in 7 Easy Steps
Do you have an elderly parent who has fallen victim to internet conspiracy theories?
I wanted to wash my face and my feet. I wanted to be invited somewhere.
I was being led by something. So tender and raw inside of my body that I can’t point to a specific place — there was me before I had ever seen a dam.
Smoke Screens
The week the pandemic hits, I break my lease in Little Haiti and drive fifteen hours up the I-95 to be with my parents.
This Country is Motherless and Makes me Forget
I am not. Two weeks or more since a call. To be in America, / You must see American, close your eyes and dream American
There is No Other Way to Say This
Every morning the sparrows sing / Every day there is another funeral
here’s the space i carry. here’s the space that’s empty. • this our sunken sweet parade
so let's talk then about unruliness / how it defies the joys of order & everything / that's missed.
Enough Rain
Quail rise in ruffles from the sage. / Pebbles I scraped into my knee look / like they belong there.
In Bad Faith
Elsewhere a bell rings /medieval in its calling and here / I fumble for a reliquary
No One is Taking the Doughnut Shortage Seriously (and all that that implies)
— or the ketchup packet one / over in the adjacent deli, the dearth of good strawberries / in produce.
Those People
In 1996, the year my mother died of a heroin overdose, Purdue Pharma started to sell OxyContin in the United States.
Art in the space of social issues
