in order to separate or purify & other poems
“but too you ran scissors / up and down the powerlines / so the calls never made sense /until the static of ashes proved / my mother right”
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Readbefore you’re gone & other poems
“my flowers have obituaries with names that don’t match them and goodbyes that are wrong.” -
ReadA Tribute to Target Pride Merch
“No hables con her sobre this subject / Porque part of me is scared to complicate / Our memories compartimo” -
ReadFor the Moment
“How is it that my memories exist in English from a time before I knew that language?” -
ReadTo You, Who I Try to Meet Beyond the Boundaries of Names & other poems
“I near-remember and sometimes dream of standing in the morning shadow of this large looming thing, where even my hand in my mother’s feels cold.” -
ReadNo Longer Shall We Mistake the Map for the Territory
“Long live the time beneath minerals, beneath runways and concrete and stainless steel docks.” -
ReadA Poem is Not & other poems
“A tree’s wounds never heal, he reminds me, another fact from another day.” -
ReadQuestions On When We’re Asked to See A Person & other poems
“Consider on the horizon: / Where are the persons made up in the language?” -
ReadI Turn on Democracy Now! to Hear
Amy’s finally cleared up whatever’s been stuck in her throat. -
Readfictional finalism
maryland turns into my mother’s favorite place. -
ReadFirst Fried Chicken at the University of Michigan
I tore through the Target, Hurricane Hooper hellbent / on proving that his skin was / crisp enough -
Read{}s of history • crush conference & craft lessons on the moon
At the beginning of my future is me. At the end of my past, also me. -
ReadMourning — Landscape
We’ve come to Des Moines for the funeral. Fitting / place: I’ve driven through every time I was leaving home to live / somewhere new.
