‘Somewhere in America a white boss / in a dandelion dress-shirt is raising / his voice again’
‘I’m not dead yet / so why are the mourners here?’
‘I walk the broken line like I once walked into the bar’
‘broiled thoughts / cool in labor’s mute thrum’
‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’
‘Abuse is the conjuring of madness’
‘Carboniferous cockroach. / Gregarious cockroach.’
‘grief is an animal. we all know that. but which animal / exactly? what kingdom, what family, is it ever a fish?’
‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’
‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’
Our most popular poetry of 2020.
‘It was chick peas that kept you alive.’
‘yours is no magic is only wyrm sickness’
‘What you don’t know set / against all you want to know’
