Cemetery Run
Mary runs through the open gate of Mountain View Cemetery where gravestones surround her sweat on a curved road. In Mountain View, she gapes upon a downtown skyline. […]
Oakland’s Bullet
When Oakland took their bullet for a walk, that runaway caliber pressed its width into brown skin within a multigenerational neighborhood outsiders stamp as another ghetto. Oakland took their […]
I Carry Wonder
In the night’s black crush, I carry wonder if we breathe alone within our exhale of stars. Under redshift hellos scattered across this big-hug sky, how many atmospheres […]
Look Up
On cold sand, waves smash where we stand trapped within this San Francisco cityscape. Look up. I bet our galactic road curves to an Alpha Centauri wedding smacking upon […]
The Milky Way in L.A.
Based on a true story A blackout opens city-wide eyes. In Echo Park, a man breathes panic, lost on his walk home as emergency dispatchers brew their teas […]
My Steampunked Universe
When I plop the universe down like a freshwater catch onto my kitchen counter, I shimmy in an engine piston now driving an expanding cylinder: the host to glass galaxies, […]
Back From Surgery
When butterfly stitches flap across my chest in our San Francisco bedroom, you touch fresh wings after a chrysalis of cancer got sliced out. In fourteen solar dips, […]
You’re Guilty of Being a Woman
when you drag the womb of your womanhood down the Gratification Aisle. You pick a price-slashed clitoris since the one Ma gave you got kicked in the […]
Laika
Published in The Cosmos is Alive (Kelsay Books, 2023)
In the Smoke
“The Camp Fire started on Thursday, November 8, 2018, in Northern California’s Butte County . . . an urban firestorm formed in the foothill town of Paradise.” “Remembering the Camp […]