“Sentence”
“You’d be sure this sentence was the key to your / life. Also to this cell.”
5:00 A.M.
“These Are the Pearls”
“It’s 2018, the future / far from songs we danced to / left inside me.”
5:00 A.M.
“Leviathan”
“My citizenship is most acutely / felt at night.”
July 1, 2019
“Conflation”
“I took riflery in school, and Marriage 101.”
July 1, 2019
“American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin”
“We lie to break the truth / apart.”
June 24, 2019
“Love Poem”
“Pity the part // we think we do on purpose.”
June 24, 2019
“Peony”
“I am ready for the next / thing.”
June 17, 2019
“Because”
“Because there’d been too many people / and then there was no one.”
June 17, 2019
“I Wanted to Be Surprised”
“To such a request, the world is obliging.”
June 3, 2019
“The Ledge”
“You said you wanted to be young again, / which left me with this nothing left to say.”
June 3, 2019