Category Archive: Poetry

Diorama

Diorama

In my dreams you say that loneliness has caused your teeth to diminish over time, to become thin and bent You pry open your lips with both hands …

 

Tell Me You Were Anywhere

Tell Me You Were Anywhere

I. Here is how it is with you: Every day I wonder what is missing. Cracks in the sidewalk. I avoid them, wouldn’t want to break her back, smaller things, …

 

The Good Business of Your Own Burning

The Good Business of Your Own Burning

The problem with older, more established poets is that they can’t seem to stop writing about what a bitch writing is. If they’re feeling especially …

 

A Playbill

A Playbill

Bright-tailed and bushy-eyed we wandered into the circus as performers this time! – Fluttering our acrylic eyelashes at the audience, swirling candy hula-hoops around our hips, lighting everything on fire and …

 

Can We Go To China

Can We Go To China

Can we go to China and make it our very own America I wrote to you the other day Snow is falling on the great wall and I …