It’s evening at my writing desk and both these spaces / are a silence, the dimly-lit expanse of years stretching one / / after another.
Ghazal with Wonder
2019 Pushcart Prize Nominees
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How To Quilt Memories: Instructions For My Mother
Step 1: Cut as many large sections as you can from my six nursing school uniforms, blue-and-white seersucker dresses with white cotton aprons buttoned to the waistband.
If Loving You Was a Condition Where I Needed to Hunt Pain
If I lost you in a forest if / like a fox you went under / / ground its own earth / another world
On the Varieties of Religious Experience
according to some jesus is the pilot of a / pimped-out flying saucer according to / some jesus plays fiddle like a fiend / possessed
Book Review: Killing Marias, by Claudia Castro Luna
Each poem shows the reader a bright flash of an extinguished life through the journey of forty-three poems, each honoring a María murdered between now and 1993.
As Christ in the Wilderness
The grating roar of adolescence / blooming red between my legs, poppy, / the bright girdle coming out of the sky / like a halo.
Sunken Cathedral
Half the night I dream seaward / in search of resurrection
On Paul’s Letter to the Romans
When I read Norman Mailer talk about / “the swoops, spooks, starts, the masks / and snarls, the calm lucid abilities of sin” / I feel the erotics of correctness.
Psaltery & Lyre 