After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
Read MoreDirty light in the tiny hours. Rubbed myself off on a fire hydrant in the shadows. For want of a more accessible protuberance. It was the old night terroirs had me up.
Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry healers / flat sky / flame gifts for the hill / dachshunds blue cellophane / blue color of bread blue white walls / dante blood
You always leave them on the trees to rot & it so pains me to see this every fall those gorgeous pinkish red orbs like pinkish red planets become hollowed a reminder that time
I do understand what would drive someone to chart their loneliness on a grid. I do understand the precipitous tower of books relies on labors paid and unpaid, mine and others, in
I am not mad, my heart is so. Cliffside, oceanside, Pacific sand dollars, dead and broken. I am everywhere in neither form nor feeling, washed-up giant kelp,sea glass. The fire, the flame, smoke,
Translated from the Italian by Amy Newman Though a ray of sunshine,it’s not thawing. The pale tangle of shadowsis stillthe only ornament of the earthbeneath the bare trees. In Norway — right
2023 Margaret Sterling Memorial Award Winner I am of my mother, my mother is of me. I am my mother’s eyes, deep turquoise, surrounded by deep orange, that I am not of.
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner after Otto Dix’s painting “Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber” I have met a Munich girl with black hairand a penchant for putting out matches on the
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner Memory finds me clean. I offer it space inside of my kidneys.It wants to know a face. I don’t have a face I only havehands. Bear the
2023 Hattie Lockett Award Winner That which I call myself by any other namewould not remember my cheeks blistering,tripping to the front of the classroom whenMrs. Blonde and Blue tripped over my