Three communists at a table Discuss the future of planet Earth. Your family back in Vietnam Are struggling, the rice is drowning, No...

My mother’s voice, a hymn of Haiti, Resonates in the rhythm of discipline, Each note a commandment, Each beat a boundary.   I dance...

1.     Pine needles sprinkled down like confetti. 2.                                    -prom closed with reflective confetti. 3.    ...

The summer I was lost, my grandmother gave me black cherry ice cream always two scoops, every night, and we’d sit on the porch in the...

I cut the flowers for a still life,                                     Smiling on the table top hunting joy;                            ...

Stubborn dandelion, yellowed brilliance unaware that it’s outstayed the world’s welcome, soaked in still morning light with a pair of...

my eyes lock with my eyes two black holes, duplicated suspended in space and time.   i blink — and the self-portrait shifts late sun...

i.   we were probably eight when you waved back    as i looked up from my new apartment balcony.      we looked for shells and jumped...

I bowed to the ground, picked up nine four-leaf clovers - six five-leaf clovers too. Their petals sliced by mower blades speckled by...

and i love him even more now my half-mad boy in his skeleton best   black and red, canary and camo he pulls that heart out of his chest...

We are on a train from Tokyo to Kurama Onsen  near Kyoto. You write on the back of purple and gold  origami paper, scenery passes us by...

She misses the light that hid its existence cream and pale under the watchful eye of the waning moon that used to dance in spirals and...