freedom is an elephant in a barrel an atheist & a goldfish playing pool on a street corner that doesn’t exist time is the calculus of laundry strung up from the teeth of a piano soberly searching for an antidote to rain a dumpster in paradise is also a primordial desire to dismantle what we [...]
Category: poetry
Ballad from a Torn Paper Plane
Feels Like Sunday, paper collage, 2021 i. hypnosis is forever at noon, i hear the moon whistle my eyes are covered in dandelions i ask myself, how long have we been strangers? ii. this poem tells me i cannot laugh at what doesn’t exist so i invent a butterfly on my forehead who takes the [...]
At Eleven, My Lover’s a Moon
how much is too much? the anatomy of a driving car a mandolin with no rain at eleven, my lover’s a moon his favorite t-shirt’s yellow he spills coffee on the eggshells of the great cosmic mystery this might not sound significant but it could be if pigeons were paragons of infinite sadness if rainbows [...]
Woman with Hummingbird and Clock
Woman with Hummingbird and Clock, paper collage, 2021 to photograph the face of a woman who has no face, but a world buried deep in an exclamation mark as if to say, “this desire is my body” the native wall vanishes a poem germinates from the grimace on her forehead vertebrae of time hummingbird wind
Elevator Music
Atmosphere, paper collage, 2021 i. i’ll be the first to tell you: the effects of gravity on these empty pages is questionable as if walking in the shadow of a goldfinch i look back and realize i’ve written the words, “not duplicating reality, but making it more intense” and i laugh, remembering that yesterday is [...]
The Irregular Art of Dancing with Woodpeckers
a poem should be serene beneath the surface, don’t you think? a portal to unassailable worlds indigo breezes and elevator music paradise if paradise is the difference between Descartes and a fish hook —and let me tell you—i’d choose the fish hook every time but what am i saying? satire is outdated punked like an [...]
Still Life with Apple Tree
Untitled, Woman with Tree, paper collage, 2021 being. portrait of nonbeing still-life with an apple tree tied behind your back thin paper nose back arched like a self-tied knot infatuated with pianos, maybe, or waking up gently to the thrill of chrysanthemums on a Tuesday morning (with dew) it’s the kind of scenery that writes [...]
The Curtain Waits for No One
The Curtain Waits for No One, paper collage, 2021 arms of summer visible climate a momentary release of freedom everything we see is also its opposite so what matters? silence birdsong the kind of sex that dawns in unripened waters i sleep to loosen my eyes from reason i gather the hummingbirds i feed the [...]
Flight of the Paper Birds
tell me the entire face is mine even the subtle interior like a toy silver bell tell me the riddle at the end of the nose is also mine a red letter "r" or an ember of hair a wing where innocent elbows used to be as if to say, we are each standing at [...]
Unspoken Etiquette of Weather
Salvador Dalí, Skull with its Lyric Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Should Have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest, 1934. there’s a chemical basis for everything under the sun frogs' legs, leotards the surreality of a piano in a cool, dry desert this poem, i believe, is organic sexual gravitational like [...]
