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
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* Voltage-gated pathways are depolarizedand pore-forming membrane proteinsallow calcium influx from adjacent solutions. (Cell insides become saturated) Excitation is mossy fiber runningsouthbound head-stems and paired shootsthrough once-relaxed tissue. * You’ve established rules,preventative
What separates us from our lives / is a see-through thing. /
Brandon Downing’s collections of poetry include The Shirt Weapon (2002), Dark Brandon
Allergies 2 I didn’t know you could be allergic to cold water. Reactions can range from hives to death—though yours have always been mild.Summer came late this year, the lake full of fresh
Particles Dark matter moves the universe away from itselfhold your breath the matter with no name
This painful stonetooth has nothing to grindagainst but sky.All your panickyrage is coffined,it’s tamped in, deeper than I amtall. Nothing to fearnow but the poison’sown loneliness,standing here,saying its charm, as if to
More than once, I have cried for what’s gone. Some nights, I wonder what happens to the dead beneath the earth: my grandfather, his body resting in one of the graves in this town where
Gates Pass At the moment of her death,the cactus wren dive-bombs her own nest.Feathers and twigs tanglein white thorns.Saguaros throw up their armsunable to slow the sun.Chollas turn lustless.Sweating and cold along
I’ve been dreaming of whales. Orcas, in water so clear and blue it makes me yearn for something I can’t place. In the dream, I’m in a kayak on the clear blue
rotating system the old cure for cysts was to hit them with a biblegrandma was flashed after exiting a theaterspider crickets jump toward you, not away rental my last landlord sent mea
can i buy you a drink can i just say that trans* people are not a burden it’s your body that gave you away it’s your body that i like can i
The lights dim. The seatsfill with sequinedcowboys. Leatherdykescirculate, lean againstthe bar. Everyoneis here & everyone wants to be here. The drinksare strong & cheap& named thingslike desert rose& cactus blossom.They make the
On the First Day of the Year, I Try to Write You A Love Poem after We Drink Until 5 AM Kitchen floor cigarettes light into the New Year like birthday candles–the
