However the image enters its force remains within my eyes rockstrewn caves where dragonfish… wild for life, relentless and acqu…

I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy I cannot live without still sucks his thumb in secret

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. The curve of your waiting body

The edge of our bed was a wide gri… where your fifteen-year-old daught… gut-sprung on police wheels a cablegram nailed to the wood next to a map of the Western Rese…

Is the total black, being spoken From the earth's inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of… How a sound comes into a word, col…

An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel gazelle inescapable sleek leather boots on the pavemen…

New Year's Day 1:16 AM and my body is weary beyond time to withdraw and rest ample room allowed me in everyone'… but community calls

Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor

There are so many roots to the tre… that sometimes the branches shatte… before they bear. Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march

For those of us who live at the sh… standing upon the constant edges o… crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice

I have studied the tight curls on… moving away from me beyond anger or failure your face in the evening schools o… through mornings of wish and ripen

Coming together it is easier to work after our bodies meet paper and pen

I have not ever seen my father’s g… Not that his judgment eyes have been forgotten nor his great hands’ print on our evening doorknobs

My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I wa… no one mistook whose child I was. Features build coloring alone among my creamy fine-boned s…

The difference between poetry and… is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gu…