Dedicated to my sweet Romanian friend V.D. Beauty is you, goodness is you, heart is you, love is you, soul is you, joy is you, flower is you smile is you, peace is you, light is you, life is you
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I planted a tree in your holy garden. Made my way through old auditoriums of memories playing on dirty screens. This place is not what I thought it was. I was not who I thought I was. I watered the sand bank until it collapsed down to the rest of the earth. Soon a stream…
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I’d like a small amount of kindness. A silver dish of helpful offerings from a place that’s humble. I grew to understand that shoulders are made for lifting up the young. I am not accustomed to begging. We help each other. The sight of chopped wood in the back of a pickup trucks reminds me…
This spring both James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith published new poetry books. James Allen Hall’s Romantic Comedy (Four Way Books, chosen by Diane Seuss for the Levis Prize) is an ingenious look at the erasure of queerness in film. He writes “Is it any wonder / I have failed to imagine my life won’t…
You pondered Day after day Knock, knock, knock! The shell was too hard to break Down inside the wrinkles of my crust Someone had engraved With countless unpleasant traits Then in a very flipping moment They turned into my incredible veins becoming darker and darker But I didn’t expect that I would fall in love…
The other day, Anne, my yoga teacher began class by saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears. So says Lao Tzu.” I couldn’t stop myself from correcting her, “Nope, he never said that.” “Who said it then?” she asked. “No one knows. I am guessing fake Lao Tzu? In other words, someone who…
