from “The Black Maria”
After Neil deGrasse Tyson, black astrophysicist & director of the [...]
Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back
So what if usefulness, thin as figment, but sturdier, sturdy [...]
On the Isle of Lesbos
For the ones who rescued refugees from the Aegean Months [...]
Dragon-slayer
We knew he was coming he took his good and [...]
Selection from Tanka Diary
My tanka diary began with a wish to incorporate into [...]
Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
Eight floors below our wide-open window As early summer sang [...]
Immortal City, Immortal Heart
The hiss of air brakes on trucks slowing down to [...]
Still Life with Starlings and Man
“ But since they shipped us across the [...]
In his lover’s house, a father rises
The end’s always there at the beginning Dad said, quoting [...]
Forget
I met my white grandfather a few times. of course [...]