Child of God
He had a pet tree named Rigor Mortis / and swore when he spoke in tongues.
A Mexican-American Novel
A year- / in-the-life type of tale.
Ceres in the Permafrost Thaw
Can you see all of me more clearly / this time?
Life Cycle of the Dragonfly
Instinct is our parent, too, // & motion
On the Day I Bury the River
For 90 days it starved and never once died.
The Playing-Field
The wake of a battle / seems to lie // on the long grasses.
Dollar Store Roses
do you hate money
Big Life
now this is the softcore version
Unattainability Ode
how I wished / to see her sleeping
Nine Places
Here my mother will peel back layers of wallpaper in the kitchen, its large orange and brown patterned flowers tearing stingily.
Psychology 101: Id, Ego, and White Supremacy
Black psychologists understood it as aggression, a demonstration of power.
The Fate of Small Negotiations
My son’s DNA is rainbow colored.
The Berkeley Pit
The earth was already poisonous from the start.
Another Country Death Song
Sidra was a Polish girl who’d read a lot of Nietzsche and wanted to die.
Nine Mournings
The first morning is soaked in fog and dew collects on her bare shoulders, speckles of water crowding together in an anxious wait as Harriet stands in the middle of the crossroad.