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thunder calls my name

i am told everything is about sex especially the untold and i want to say the first thing that isn’t about sex   i want it bad * to land to live lightning must first enflame the earth * i don’t think i can make it but luckily i don’t have to think to get … Continue reading

the year without days

it was the year without days and it only took a few seconds where you were on the Chilean sands where she always wanted to go because there’s the mountains and the ocean and the two of you in between the blue and blue and her bluest of all despite being here finally here with … Continue reading

welled worth

took me 25 years to learn how to speak well another 50 to write better and 75 to realize that no one gives a damn what is said * damned if i do damned if i don’t damned if i do i and damn if i don’t which is something i would do in my … Continue reading

how to burn wood

cut down all the trees and say finally there is room to breathe   hide in the darkness and say now you can see   sleep all day and say you’ve done too much now   empty your heart and say you didn’t expect to bleed so much   follow and say you feel bad … Continue reading

work out

there is hope that you will not need hope only will * i have gotten into short poetry for it lasts long and gets me * all people want all people to want all people but few will ever be wanted   * freud says a mother is a woman a son can’t have because … Continue reading

scrubbing skin with a coal, or oneself

all life comes from water which is why when wet we wrinkle and prune for we are the stuff of the ancients * there’s a way to believe oneself i just believe that i believed it away * what you need to know about what you need is all you need to know about all … Continue reading

snow sake

trying to keep the snow in the air with my breath but it melts with being and life * there is a sentence that when penned makes all alright except for the fact that many in the world cannot read * life give me poetry for poetry gives me life * the best way to … Continue reading

lunar lakes

all the meaning in the world is found in the deep sadness of not being found in one’s hiding spot the kind that makes them want to just reveal to everyone how good they are but can’t for this is the game and to have meaning the rules must be sought * remember you were … Continue reading

hide and seek but never be found

i trust the universe even though it lied to me that i could go back to the beginning and find myself there * father a drinker mother a pourer me a not-me as i am always farther than my mouther self can be from home * racial privilege is when white out means rewriting and … Continue reading

after ever

the pages are always blank even when there is there   it is never finished for to finish would be to admit that it does not go on and every story always does * there is only one story ever told: nothing is never happening * mean as it is writing is meant to make … Continue reading