Month: February 2023
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Because Your Crazy Uncle is Ten Memes Behind
“Avast!” your crazy uncle shouts onNational Speak Like a Pirate DayBecause it’s something he read on AOLHard to get him…
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Tortillas
Brown rough calloused handswrinkled like raisins dippingin and out of the masa.Pounding and kneading la masapara las tortillas,“Para aprender mija”…
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This is Your Poem, Rabbit
I remember asking youwas it a coyotebut I knew he would have taken youI came closeryou couldn’t runI nudged youthere…
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Obsidian Fields
I was twenty-one years old the summer Elaine and I backpacked into Three Sisters Wilderness. I was an urban creature,…
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Nightly Visitors
My dreams are like ghosts:they come and go as they pleasein a river called sleep.They break the silence,white shapeless company,looming…
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Pleasure Principle
The purpose of this exercise is to prove that red, at a deep enough depth,looks blue.*That light runs over the…
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Of Men and Dreams
We pause for a moment under the searing sun, and I struggle to see in the distance. My sunglasses are…
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A Position of Trust
Milwaukee, 1993 My only job that day was to be in the Dehaine house while the appraiser was there. After…
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The Potential in Architecture
The art of the possible in the ranch-style housecirca the summer before the sick cries of digestive mishaps rang out like…
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Little Death Livestock
The best lie he ever told me was about the bull on his grandfather’s farm, an atypicalcreature all the cousin-childrenplayed with, brushing…