Writing
2026
Boots
The same sun scorched downtown Los Angeles that had seared the Iraq desert. Army Private First…
As Shadows Slide Away
When you look for my voice, find it
in my poem in slightly accented speech,
a Nordic inflextion, a Southern drawl.Elision
Being an erudite endomorph, I simulaate earth,
thus engender effulgence, a kind of ozone
I believe is not easily broken through.Visions
Another day of doom prophesy,
but my candle glows and warms
confidently as the flame reaches upward,THE SPIDER
It all started when I tried to drown
the spider. Or moments before, when I hear
Nana’s simmered paranoia gurgling that welfareTHE DAY GIVEN
Breakfast finished, I ask mom what she wants
for lunch. She assumes this is only out of duty,
a carousel without music, but it’s reverenceGluegun
Draining in bucket of others
Mixed craftly, tirelessly with palms and lip-drool
of your design, by my allowanceWinter Looks Familiar Until It Breaks You
At the hospital, the nurse paused my husband’s gurney at the kissing corner, where,…
Old Stories
Have you heard the one about the woman who went hiking / running / walking / riding /
quickstepping through the mountains / park / forest / city street and never came home?…
you have. So often that you, especially if you are not a woman, might call this story…What They Left Behind
The day after the phone company
jackhammered the asphalt
on this neighborhood street,peasant miasma
aches, stomachhead— screenstaring until terminal burnout
fantasizing about creativity seeking emotional highs loosely akin to that of writing
hating myself so much I seriously entertain becoming average, renouncing my giftdrones
The amerikan poem reads
like a nursery rhyme or perhaps
the disjointed inner monologueDuped
money to the power of Q
took over the Temple
failed stewards of the earthWater is Life
lead contaminated
pipeline-polluted
guzzled by AIAcceptance Speech for the Joy J. MacSee Award
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