Lost Cat
I read my horoscope in coffee grains. With my pulverized future in my denim pocket, I go out walking. At West and 37th, in front of Spokeland, I spot […]
East Oakland Bus
At MacArthur and Maple across from Diamond Market where the beer and smokes preach my name, I jam myself onto a 57 outbound within a swath of wedged bodies. On […]
My Blue Affront
Flush out of Kaiser Medical, I’m a single mother with Bluejay’s cerulean clothed body a twin to the sky’s wavelength blue. On a Geary Boulevard block, a man fresh […]
Monetized Happiness
Overlooking unhoused hearts in a tent encampment, an East Oakland billboard zip ties my eyes: YOU CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS. Sure, I get it. Then again, can any vocal cords […]
Poetry to the Next Generation
Over my journal and a pen’s ink swell, I spilled a sonnet across a sanded oak welcome. Once I wiped up this iambic mess, the stressed and unstressed syllables […]