We met Online. The word “Online” Doesn’t even fit On poetry page. What line? The line that (we imagine) Exists…
Real boy the love I have made to you is unremarkable, as it should be in a perfect world, impossible…
It was not solace we sought in the woods, but rather, logs to provide fire for years. Having known too…
The green organic fairtrade coffee shop Ran out of green organic almond milk one day On my green organic college…
I open myself up in increments – like flowers blooming and dying in fast forward. Photo: Catherine Perez Vega
And that terrorist attack was at my brother-in-law's synagogue and he was a minute or two late for prayers, so…
The people on Nightingale Street congregate tonight beside a corpse. One pulls back the hair; another peers into the eyes…
Friends find each other when they’re lonely latch onto sound, odd-paired partners holding court like the camaraderie of smokers at…
The aloneness of orchards, farm lands, and forests. Fields freshly stripped of trees. Ponds behind suburbs and prisons where we’d…
The old brick wall was always there, but I’d left it unnoticed for a time. It held my gaze as…
The morning after I bury my dog I wolf my scrambled eggs and check on him, below the garden, where…
Getting the head Shorn with a blade, Hairless to the touch And smooth, was how Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasai men…
My father was no gentleman an unhandy handyman my inheritance was a lack of project planning skills in my hands…
That’s her, 1962, Though she’d hate my saying so. Early Times, her phrasing I remember – Early Times Mist, vodka…
The snake rests in the path of her truck which she wants to back out under the overhead door. It…
The old man, asleep perhaps on a tired bench, slumps forward and a torn bit of paper slips from his…
There is a part about halfway through the middle of your latest book optioned by the Hollywood press before publication…
As far from one interstate as you get before drawing closer to another, forty-eight mile stretch with one gas station.…
I saw you from across the cafe, and I think we might have something in common, I mean, besides being…
The smoke has settled thick. Near mountains appear the color of bruises. The far ones, I can only remember seeing. …
Her taste is a dead sea, fed upon/collected in moderation & excess buried beneath pressure/ pleasure, she scatters in pinches…
Twelve metal knockers positioned precisely on the cottage’s blue door. Three catch his eye: the silver fish with its burnished…
Because he’s two and can’t, I tee up the ball, déjà vuing to the worn net in my father’s basement. When…
I am 70 and the rocks in the creek are slippery I have left the toast too long in the…
Bright wheels shine upon the green linoleum intermittently singing a song of rust and thirst within the deafening silence of…
the scrap entrails from our parents’ hollowed eyes, near blind, exploited still feasted on by the old gods, shame sacrifice,…
The doctor stops by my bed. I’m in a hospital gown in pre-op. I touch my old scars. I say:…
Don't confuse me with someone standing on the earth. I'm strung from the sun. # # # Andrew Furst is…
They finished stitching you at 2 A.M. The crowd at the ER spilled out into the corridors— drunks and druggies,…
Our daughter is the ancient mariner doomed to wander forever through foreign scenes of dark despair, doomed by her own…
Even though he isn’t here, he’s here. I can see him sitting next to me— a Cessna Skycatcher soars overhead.…
Riffing off Cleve Jones, muse of the AIDS quilt, the world’s largest ever community art project, after listening to his…
evening flies blue overhead, dragging the night in behind it. I step outside before it's passed to collect some blue…
Light is gentle here, and scarce—a room designed for dilated pupils, for patients with glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration—people whose…
Call for the lumberjacks give them full authority to cut deep, to cut down all the trees, my forest Bring…
I planted tomatoes on a Friday in April, their little hairy leaves reminding me of your legs in winter, their…
I gave to you until my palms were empty; you took until your hands were coated white with the dust…
Those shriveled wrinkled fingers passing on that family album with a fleeting touch has passed on the generations under our…
Stumbling on the boulevard, he discovered a desert covered the entirety of his city the phantom sands spread thickest over…
The undercover bisexual walks in wearing her best flannel and jeans–– (it’s funny because the bisexual doesn’t really need an…
We have the test results – a female voice announces through the holes by my ear I watch the ceiling…
When Mama washed the sheets, she stripped beds bare, toted a basket brimming with linens to the back yard. On…
In the electric chapel, Veronica wears her strawberry sandals and divorce papers pinned up her sleeve. Her fly-by-night bridegroom, Chad,…
As of Friday night, the Gaza health ministry said that three Palestinians had been killed, all of them shot in…
His classmate complains when the student in the back row falls asleep in class for the third time - so…
Two states away they were burying my uncle, but when I got on a Greyhound bus, it was heading towards…
This spring, the honeysuckle twining our chain-link fence remains unplucked; the wild pear tree, no longer harangued by greedy fingers.…
Face-down on a beach the drowned child. You saw the photo. Arms at his sides, red shirt, blue shorts salt-soaked…
sounded like Spring with beating hearts of romaine, baby spinach leaves cooing impishly in the cradle, with shavings of radicchio…
You turn me into a mosquito chipping and fluttering at broken air with a steady buzz of anonymity and a…
I hadn’t become much of a cook yet— I had only lived, or half-lived, with a few boyfriends, trying out…
We were told we crawled out of the water, our limbs budding as needed. And this was why we return…
Fires burn constantly in the south lands. The stink of sulphur and the churn of smoke against the blank white…
The cook blasts rap, minces inferior parts of suckling pig for staff meal. Sweet Ali & I sweep chick peas…
In the manner of Jim Carroll Distress was her middle name so we used it sparingly in the morning sleeping…
Tuesday it finally stopped raining so we bolted for the beach after lunch. A lifeguard perched above the fray, twirling…
They say we are stardust, each connected by an ethereal blueprint, bound atom by atom, the unending synapse firings in…
The moon would be a mirror were it not a soggy paper plate. Each universe a simulation of the next,…
At some moment in everyone's life There comes the desire to extend one’s arms, To rotate slowly on your tiptoes…
considering colony collapse Sometimes, I think I could become a home for honeybees let them pick the nectar from my…
A galaxy painting her skin Her face a night sky Markings never fail to heal But her soul still cries.…
During the dead age, I spent the silent moments fantasizing about climbing inside the abandoned water tower, slipping my wasting…
Gin and tonics are not the same without you he says as I walk out my back door. The mulberry tree…
You need another wedding dress for the August heat of Israel, so you’re in the TJMaxx dressing room alone, trying…
He could stand it no longer, had almost crushed his one Sunday hat in his hands, crushed his desire to…
On the plane to Lima, I browsed new movies on an airline screen; some looked good, but I was tired,…
— after the British TV series “Luther” If I go missing, if I am accused, perhaps guilty — send DCI…
For the lynx, a bob. A wooly stub above the anus shaking off the snow on a winter slope. Studs…
There is always a hum in the back of my mind. The dryer clanging a cacophony of notes to a…
I sip my customary espresso at JJ's on a cold, nearly freezing, Spring Monday in the World's (again) Most Liveable…
Swirling under three dresses, wearing a peaked hat like Dorothy's witch, she drags a battered red wagon across the busy…
Old Salt, damned since orange groves covered the valley, seals his soul’s fate in Chinatown’s ending: the car skids to…
Rolling north, we pull over the shoulder of the first Alp, and leave the dim Italian plain receding in the…
Bags packed, rifle in tow, uniform on, I boarded a plane. Anticipation warmed the heart; apprehension gripped the throat. My…
I am a victim of the rulers who enslaved my grandfather(s) of a system that ranks their language superior to…
Idle fingers pinch perfumed skin, pull it taut and splotchy, try to touch the angular body beneath. I undress my…
Each of these doors opened in succession: the moon, the three stones on which we set the pot for soup,…
Webbed appendages would be useful. I might, with them, be able to dart through the folds of traps you’ve laid…
I wake to the size of the silence within me slide feet into shoes stand tall, taller balance the weight…
On a farm in Kansas, a boy was gawking through the milky glass of a View-Master at a sight he’d…
The first date concluded with tiny, dark dots of crushed vanilla bean, a splatter of stars at the bottom of…
The first thing I notice is the fine line of the beard outlining his strong chin up to the side…
My Carpathian nose bent on your belly sniff sniff sniff reaping the fallen fruits spread everywhere on your blossomed skin…
In cardiac rehab there would be nights you can't sleep. Others who overheard confirmed that sleep is a commodity. When…
I buried you on a bright red tricycle with a bell on the handlebars while the swing set continued to…
. . . now I say it less in words and more silently in work. …
Purpose is hard to come by, when you’re spending days driving South; Utah and Arizona. Red in the rearview, red…
There is this photo of Marianne Moore beside a pony in Greenwich Village that like a nun fingering beads I…
After Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment I listen twice, three times, four - the first to hear the second…
A 5,000 year old ring fort defends the cliff from invaders, its stones offering little protection to tourists. So you…
Sometimes it is in desolation that we discover life, and so, on Highway 2 in the Upper peninsula of Michigan…
The snow fell. We were running around the creek, washing our faces in the icy water. It tasted like dreams…
My V. A. counselor tells me I should write about the helicopter on fire. He tells me I need to…
In a milli-second to the 50th power after …
it wasn't the drunk and desperate crowd whose ears will ring with dull and gloried memory of this blues jam…
She slowly swings her woven circular net into the Gulf that sloshes against rock slabs of the elongated jetty on…
At the same height of Every rocky mountain Above all seasonal change You are widely cut open As if to…
it's close to midnight and i come in as quietly as i can try to not stumble against the furniture that…
I open a mouth in the early morning earth, and remove a bedding plant with care from its fragile plastic…
We drank an IPA at Vino's, then a couple more. The day sweltered; Times Square proved too much. Jesus said,…
This website uses cookies.