Man/woman/ man, Tiresias rated the female in bliss nine parts the victor and gave his eyes for his error in discretion; Jonah’s Leviathan hid in her strange name only hints…
I admit: the cup, the bend, the skin where your shoulder and neck met fitted my temple and my eye. Your blood warmed my ocular bone, my thighs still cold…
Everyone remembers when the animals broke loose. Tigers prowling through the midway. Snakes charmed by the spotlight at center ring. Chimpanzees storming the stilled Ferris wheel to reach the children…
Witch-healer Curandera ¿Tienes susto hija? Are you frightened? Ven pa’ aca … I will cure you. Primera visita: Smooth brown egg dipped in holy water, passed over her trembling body,…
She stood in tears amid the alien corn -John Keats This is something buried long ago In which eyes find different shapes. This is you banging on steel drums, Conjuring…
At night after her stinging work is done she dips a stiff quill in her own blood & writes brother brother brother brother brother brother brother. But in every capacity…
I bend my Cardinal’s rim and conceal my smirk as I tentatively enter Mrs. Robinson’s suburban home. Deal was if I did what she said, she’d mentor me in the…
Fig. 875: 6×4” menu printed on cream silk, fraying at the edges. Embroidered in black thread, entitled “Midnight Breakfast.” Service includes a single grape from the giant’s vineyard, a fried…
in dirt and thread, two birds eying the loose hem of my skirt. Stag-boy and I stand between the words owl and nest, feet bare in the river bend, mud…
We fear the growth of weeds, pour deadly potions on exotic leaves. Still, crown vetch takes the walkway when our magic weapons fail. Dandelions crack roads to rubble; bindweed splits…