Mar 15, 2021
A Letter to My Mother, or Ode to Invisible Things
Dear sudden inspiration, creeping uncertainty, tiny splinter of glass, / sometimes you cannot be enough.
Time Lapse
In a time lapse, nothing happens smoothly. / Red horns quake as they splinter / from limbs on the bottlebrush.
Mar 12, 2021
A TEMPLATE FOR YOUR FIRST EVER NATIVE AMERICAN “LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT”
Do I directly benefit from the enslavement and genocide of the original people of this land? Absolutely.
Feb 24, 2021
Self-Portrait with Cumin, Saffron, and Star Anise
To Cumin, Saffron, and Star Anise, sisters / of the roasted goat and rice ritual, daughters / of smoke and gossip, glowing and bloodwarm
Feb 17, 2021
The Only Invitation
I was begging / for some grandeur even if it meant / a little blood or whole limb
Feb 08, 2021
WHAT IS A COUNTRY TO A UNIVERSE?
a rooster crows from a neighbor’s backyard / pinche gallo, Abuelo spits, looks quick / to see if i wake from the noise / of Spring
Feb 02, 2021
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
if you believe me to be your enemy know this I accept
Jan 05, 2021
Choose Your Quarantine House (I – IV)
under the dark sitting pretty / on the patch of hardwood floor / where confession / and callousness meet
Dec 02, 2020
Reimagining Light
The water flows through hollow bones and returns / as a song. It sounds familiar in the beginning / Then always changes.
Nov 02, 2020
Corrective State
The people behind bars are captives of war / The people stolen into camps and cages / speak it plain
Oct 26, 2020
Shivering in the Summertime
some days my own womb shivers at the thought of / my black ass children being thrown / against any wall
Oct 19, 2020
the faggotry
the ones you call those frickin’ Ayrabs, the ones / who hold hands with / kiss cheeks with those they call / habibi & isn’t every habibi is a mis/-translation of? habibi
Oct 14, 2020
Love Me A Man Who Cries
I claw / against the syrup to love other men / for whom, bless them, a bird is just / a bird.
Oct 05, 2020
Dark Blue
turn me into a place like home to you. / Say my name like the stars and / Let’s go out tonight.
Sep 23, 2020
in & out of jean shorts (the reel catches)
I wish for sex out / in the open, to have / some strange body / glide over mine, to collide / as if to butterfly / underwater required not one / but two sets of salty / chests & jutting / calves
Sep 08, 2020
