Math Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat.
Tributary
The year I meet granpa my hands mimic clouds. / Charybdis turning turpid pools / beneath his globes— vision I have awaited.
For the Gentleness of Our Leaving
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort.
SAMBATYON
There is a river, lost or hidden, that is impossible to pass six days each week.
Electrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
How Do You Make It Work?
I’m writing this much later than I should be, in part, because I’ve just had another birthday, and as I age, I become more reluctant to do more than one job.
To Pasture
The court had decided I was the most logical choice for the bull’s care. I was sufficiently neutral as a production assistant, and I’d already been tasked with managing him at the studio.
Excerpts from The Work Is Done When We Are Dead
We don't know. / Despite thousands of years spent / conceptualizing moralities of power, / theorizing hierarchies / or their abolition...
DEI, Bitch
Can everyone hear and see me okay? No? Oh, I was on mute, let me just ... There we go.
On Employability
"Why is it that the more transsexual I get, the more employable I feel?"