Palinode to the Celestial Bestiary

poetry
  despite my lamentation, I was wrong from the beginning about that book’s name. how did I misremember details from my life so thoroughly as to reinvent the self- important…

The Celestial Bestiary

poetry
  ++++++++++++++++++++++++was a book that stood thin on a low wood shelf at my father’s house throughout my childhood. I mistook it for truth: stars were animals that died, but…

Molt

poetry
  I have never held a hand that didn’t sweat, but every morning I wake a body full of aches. I do not know how to define dance or the age…

Modern Loneliness

poetry
  I love calling things a prelude but I’m also gouging meaning out, but that also means it’s nothing on its own. I’ll be a better writer if I read…

Soundly

poetry
  I haven’t written in years. Too cooped up with the thought of how ink and lead are really just euphemisms of ash. This afternoon I had diarrhea and a…

Iceland

poetry
  I Gawkers press against glass asking each other if it’s him eating an airport salad. It is Chris, and flattering to be loved in a public way but noisy,…

Control Line

poetry
  Driving across Colorado somewhere just past Fairplay grassland split by fences cattle packed into huddles dark haze of mountains north beyond them, a fire had burned for weeks in…

Cipher

poetry
  Enter the ice storm where the dark shines in celluloid as the wind conceives its latticework of sleet. Enter the pillow, its hushed discussion, a crushing of the throat’s…