My figure is my dead mother’s—her wasp waist, the bell of her hips, her wispy wrists. She comes to me now as scent: the minty menthol of her cigarettes that she puffed through a black sequined cigarette holder at
Day: November 5, 2026
Subsequent to a clash of bumpers a rag is reinvented as an instrument to arrest the loss of scarlet. That’s not all. Under the wheel of stars we are pressured into life then into fabrics the shape
whose shadow is the size of a toothpick at 1 pm on a Tuesday, stands hatless on voting day. Presidential as it were. He scratches his head in misery as the sun pops blisters atop his scalp and corns
Past live chickens in crates on 148th street children play at Martin Luther King Playground. I dream of swings becoming doves they will fly Stray cats hang out underneath jungle
Getting on wise old man …. normally attired in formal wear Balance act in age, progressively splendid null – mind, that innate watchman wakes in vain, not having much insight. Like, monocle looking, would be wise – beyond that
after a famous classical piece of the same number by Franz Schubert I On a Sunday afternoon when your name stood congruent to my age, you hitched yourself to my house, sauntered up from the corner of
Resting in lucent waters, two ships with wrenched rigging and ropes frayed churn in paint. Between the sterns of the Resolution and Discovery, Maunakea rises from Kealakekeua Bay. Thin oiled Union Jacks flap. The bows point to broad
The buzz of two insects entangled on the patio their thoraxes flailing their wings flapping draws my eyes in the late afternoon as I sitting alone notice the fury of their passion either fornication or a fight unto death
something stylish today: a scarf on the world, and a jacket. life like a seal between boats at the howth head peninsula. on certain days dublin comes suddenly quiet, with the sense of a cigarette end left by shells
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