Where drought hasn’t melted men
into three seasons

A shuffle of footsteps
in discarded leaves
warns

Winter is coming   [Read more…]

I tried to leave
because she
can be cruel
to women and children
unkind to the strangers
she once was herself

Round corners
in a remote countries
and there she was
looking out of starry eyes
waving wind

Stowed in my suitcase
carried over seas of clouds   [Read more…]

Rain bubbles asphalt —
Thunder’s light reopens wounds —
Seeps through cloud cover.   [Read more…]

Over
35,000 men women children
wired to a fence

Each name
a page in earth’s history
spit into fire
devoured by sea
deported
redacted into dust   [Read more…]

I found my voice
and it won’t be shutdown
iced over
stamped out
by bullets striking stones

My voice
can’t be invaded
bricked up
pulled under
by coyotes howling
walls   [Read more…]

Water’s weight
raised sky
held her down

Waves beat fatigued wings
into molten scales of sun:   [Read more…]

Behind the door god’s
ninety-nine paths

Initiates
voluntarily shed coats
remove shoes
submit their inner selves
to the scrutiny of electromagnetic waves

The absolved
float down narrow corridors
through automatic doors   [Read more…]

The joke is
on US
when laughter
provokes tears

Good medicine
goes bad

Delivery
executed
with the slap of a stick
that punches
our original voices
into mimes   [Read more…]

I still feel my fathers hands
on top of mine
guiding the push reel mower
over lawn
the satisfaction of sweat
put into each cleanly cut line   [Read more…]

When F-16s
fly overhead

I sense the bulging wall
of a blood vessel
and worry the unchecked aneurysm
will rupture
into an airburst

vaporizing
sunbathing

torsos   [Read more…]

A hand over
mouths

Fingers forced inside
throats
words choked
  [Read more…]