“I can’t stop wishing I’d had that life. Oh, I know / it’s a miracle to have a life. Any life at all.”
“I brought you / to this world, and I do not regret it. / The sky’s still blue, for now.”
“We’re all in the desert / together. Your mother // liked the water cold, / Ruth says—news to me.”
“There is always a word I’m chasing inside and / outside of my body, a word inside another word.”
“Privilege is a man / taking up two seats on the train.”
“One side says slow, the other stop. / Joy and sorrow always run like parallel lines.”
“Optical illusion: how cleverly the war begins / in his ’93 Mazda MPV.”
“It is now almost daylight, / I said to the firefly.”
Poetry: “Of course we stole / the motel soap. Weren’t // we supposed to?”
Poetry: “I’ll be on your side, searching / for what we both know is there: our crumbling infrastructure.”