The Chicken for Dinner
In this implantation there is thick blood / so red it sings to black, so viscous it could be shaped / in the hands like clay.
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Readan atlas for winter
how can I love like this, / eating the bones of the sun, / its corpse of light, its flammable horizons— -
ReadAPI requests for present dystopia
Weather lights a mouth as vines drink sun in windowed rooms, / but I lied before. -
ReadSpell to Be Said Against Anxiety
Until the fodder of the fraught mind becomes the burnable legs of a useless table, / fuel only for compassion. -
ReadGrowing Cilantro
And after / one hundred twenty days, we / pinched at her stems. -
Read“Revolution” and Other Poems
you’re burning what does it taste / like when god makes mistakes -
ReadLetter to My Future Archeologist
Don’t they warn you against the misfortune / of unveiling desiccated bones to your green / sky? -
ReadPostscript & other poems
“This is localism, I think, the way the sound of the plot traverses the valley with its many hands, the way these ruptures slow time to a treacly syrup.” -
ReadPchum Ben Nocturne & other poems
“The censer holds nothing but moonlight, / prayers risen songs ago. Now, only laughter holds you.” -
ReadBangkok, Thailand
“When I told Singapore / I wanted men, my name / discreetly on my chest, / no one gasped.” -
Readthe girl’s bathroom & other poems
“Welcome to the next forty years of womanhood, my aunts echoed. Every decade, an unveiled burden.” -
ReadPortrait of Kratos Tendering the Wounds of His Child & other poems
“My brutal love / is all, a quiet meadow of violet promise. I’m so scared / as I watch the world dare you to live.” -
ReadEvery time I get a Shoryuken to the face, I get back up & other poems
“Do they have any idea / what is it to be a hero? Of / chattering bones and burning flesh?” -
Read/build god, then we’ll /talk & other poems
“The first sign of life is the ability to /64 65 6E 79. The second is /regret” -
ReadArachnovigilante & other poems
“rendition of justice, unprovoked and unasked to be / sacrificial hero with less”