Poetry

Sterilization competes with wrong-painted windows That grandmoths gather for ugly pearls Fostering the insight that gave all dynamic direction Of simple tested comradery Like a wastebasket in the muck Washed with torrid swelling lost journals Competing with stolen arguments Intentional arguments, meant to harm, to defeat, to imprison There was a simple, gathering, mule of […]

I went to the moon to ask a question I posed as an agent in red I prospered for all winter meetings Always resting my legs in bed I went to the doorway to avoid the noise Of the indifference, the commotion, and the silent retreat Then when I heard you, you were no longer […]

Clay marble statues Omnipresent in lost sands Dare-devils in the weeds of turmoiled distracted grass There are no penitentiaries in the womb of science That does not meet exacting standards of obedience And regret from the neglect of partial resonances And informed disciplines that meet solitary confinement Under weights of lost journeys in missing journals […]

Burning in town hall Witness for a single match

Translated as an overthrow Truth is a delicate ticker-tape parade What will you see in the sea of clouds It is spreading, and growing, unto all involved Every so-called progressive step In which they demonstrate Through policy That they accept you for you Is another step In which you are being coerced Into loving and […]

In the county villages You were so young You were shaken off the tree I saw you, You did not fall The tree flung you to the ground You did not leave It passed between the wind to move you Like a foreign body in a cavity That will not be tolerated You were dismissed […]

Eager to dismiss The journey of paper journals Written in dry sand towels With the gratitude of sold-out entry(ways) And telegraphed byways For the fruit of yesterday’s orchards Whether they bleed, or peel, and lay languished in wet sand They are lost journals, telling lies your mother holds Those which are not sound Do not […]

“It’s Only Going To Get Louder,” they say. I believe them.

There was a knock on the door An owl with a purse and a box of matches Said he had come to take me away The neighbor who always rudely Parks his truck almost on my front yard Sang to me, saying, “It takes more strength to live Because living is worth the trouble!” I […]

State sanctioned gangs Fighting unsanctioned gangs In El Salvador The law exists To protect those in power More than it exists To protect the powerless Exist is an atypical word It does interesting things to sentences To poems To lost poems To poems that do not exist This poem must be sacrificed In order for […]