The Cherry Blossom Planet
I swung by my ophthalmologist yesterday. She snapped a snapshot of my eyeballs laced in a pink permeation like that pink exoplanet reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom: that’s what […]
Dear Astronaut In Training,
remember when you fixed upon the rust world of Mars through your boyhood window, did you ever visualize your fatherhood frame would stand over those north pole water […]
Our Lunar Daughter
Our new moon daughter descended from an orbiting perch nine months ago. Gestation swapped, your zygote expanded in the cyclical sky. Those kicks you felt — moonquakes from our […]
I’m More Horse Than Man
I crushed my deformed sonnet under a dripping rodeo light. My creature of fourteen lines bled out blood couplets implanted with flat rhymes inside a mixed metaphor. […]
The Deformities In My Typewriter
The aborted poems I deserted inside my Underwood typewriter crawl underneath hammerhead letters. They never left the metal womb of their creation. As Samuel suckles milk only Susan […]
Native
In the kick-my-teeth talk between space and gravity, my brain undulates against the rhythmic kick of Jupiter’s spin tossing about orbiting oceans by the girth of her magnetic field where […]
The Year Before I Left For Mars,
I cupped Kansas soil in my harvest hands. Now on Martian land, skin-to-soil contact is never authorized as hominid microbes would tarnish this crimson signature. I am […]
Transplanted
I trip on sidewalk trash next to an overfilled can at Ruby and 38th. In this Mosswood neighborhood, I pay water and electricity and rent to breathe in a […]
In the Fire Afterlife,
the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the Great San Francisco Fire of 1906 crowds the chemical space of My Great-Grandma’s Kitchen Fire […]
Dogs and a Baptist Church
populate my north Oakland neighborhood where I habitually walk my rat terrier Batman and his spiky ears in still-forming dawns. Last week, as we slid past a locked gate […]