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Poems

Catalpa Tree

Catalpa Tree

Go down the gravel road past the farm where a family lived in a boxcar, past the field with longhorn cattle When you hear donkeys bray, you are almost there.

Joshua Tree

How to Leave

I have a piece of turquoise beach glass.The second rarest color, after orange. It sits collecting dust between…

Baby Make Like a Tree

i want to stick my fingers between all of your leaves i want to run my hands over your knots : step my bare feet onto your roots : sink against…

Boat

Relation Ship and Other Poems

Relation ship of fools, the two of us set adrift squared to the sea, no rudder, no captain, no sails to see us through,unclear who is looking ahead the other behind us, just us. There were others but now just us asking…

eucalyptus

The Crash

“My father liked to work with his hands So much so that it created calluses on his palms and he survived solely on manual labor…”

mango

Maybe a Mango, Recovery, Yearly Physical

Peach halves wobble in pineapple jello on the tray across her hospital bed, a kitchen accustomed to the elderly; still, Green Pines…

Drowning Manifesto

Do not tempt the sharks. Do not move your limbs horizontally or vertically. Do not hold on to pictures or passports or holy books…

Houston Skyline

Houston

We drift between our areola outlined pupils expanding with flickers of artificial sunshine in Third Ward where the dead are buried in gun cartridges…