Poems
“Vision”
“All that had been severed / was married back to itself.”
“Hyacinth”
“I don’t know if my father forgave the years / I did not love him.”
“Stitch”
“There’s nothing so lovely / as a prolonged vanishing.”
“Love Song, with Removed Cyst”
“He lies on his side, I lie on my back, / he keeps the hand elevated / on my breast.”
“Today, My Hope Is Vertical”
“Tomorrow it will be horizontal.”
“Death”
“I wondered why she flashed, / had I made a mistake.”
“The Hymn”
“It began as an almost inaudible hum.”
“To You”
“I know grief and you may know it too.”
“Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red)”
“The windows inflect an ethic of the watched, / the overseen, the secretive.”
“Untitled”
“And a day goes by, and tanks, and the sky a festival of kids flying kites, and blood / flowed behind a panting car.”