On a BART train rumbling under the San Francisco Bay, Fox spots a sign that decrees NO AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLING. In rancid fur with a cavernous stomach, Fox shambles over to an auburn-haired woman in a peacoat and perm cut. With a closed continuer of strawberries in her lap, she swallows water branded as natural stream hydration. […]
On Monday, you brought your emerald-green body into a HOA neighborhood of white, brown, and black-skinned Homo sapiens. After the cobalt force on your home planet eliminated your family, you fled slaughter to an official with a crimson tie. His voice echoed “you are welcome” within gated community bars. Along a common cul-de-sac, you observed […]
I peeled myself off my bed and yanked up a shirt huddled in a compressed pile on the floor. Slumping out the door, I waited at the bus stop with my brain still clawing for sleep. The bus’s brakes squeezed to a stop. I got in line and walked like a worker up metal stairs. […]
War still stabbed his muscles into an open bleed as he vaulted to a father of five to children who only felt his horror from the slap of his tongue giving life to the memory over boots stomping on blood soaked into Belgian soil sixty years before a plaque went up in […]
Remember: he came out gasping with a pinhole heart dripping into the expanse of his neonate body. Heart cells reborn every solar cycle since he breathed in an incubator and we paced in hallway pain over days that leaked into darkness marked first by an absent moon to a waxing gibbous climb. Under […]
On backyard grass in morning dewdrop, I scrawl Are We Alone? on the paper I tie to Sally, my homing pigeon, who vaults into a blooming blue sky. Back to my bedroom’s environment, I ask my mind: is a denizen of Proxima Centauri lurking their telescopic vision for a wavelength broadcast […]
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 a NASA astronomer said from his NASA highchair after he peered through a lens to watch the wobble of a mother sun as her blossom […]
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 molecules that sit restrained beneath the bewitching surface? You must know: water thirty-five million miles away cannot hold the same heft of home […]
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 waxing crescent daughter. When your hips swiveled towards my husbandhood embrace six months ago, I stepped into the gravitational attraction of our shining […]
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. Everything got forced into the disjointed body I’m galloping away from. I’ve failed to reveal myself until now: within my journal pages, I’m more […]