Kahan
2025Visual Poem Joshua Hamilton and Shiven Saxena, both assistant professors at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, are collaborating on a collection of visual... Read more.
Inward Motion
2025Visual Poem Joshua Hamilton and Shiven Saxena, both assistant professors at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, are collaborating on a collection of visual... Read more.
Under the Maple Trees
After the poem "Noon" by Louise GlückThey're older — elderly, really,but still before dying:that space of knowing imminent departureprior to evaporation.The small... Read more.
Breakers
The blond tabby dartsacross boiling asphalt, hustlesits haunches right at the end before the curb & the whiteCadillac swallows it whole.Could I have closedmy... Read more.
Chorus
Trees interruptgestures, misplacememory’s foldedorigami.A pause in the midstof forgetting; acontinuum.Like the water hosecurling from spigot –stretching its... Read more.
Sunset/Flood
Where night risesto suck skya shriek of sunweepinginto silver powder. Tobacco on the tonguestings bitterwith the dripof a sinkinghour. In blind instincta wolf... Read more.
Remains
Boiling pastaand collectingscattered toysI look up to see your face:shock of familiar argumentsreconciliationsbefore a long tripsteel gray rollaboardpacked awry... Read more.
Ghost Drafting
I wipe clean mantlepiecepolish blank the mirrorsscrape cold ash of fireplaceso the dead starve in their hollowhalls — remembranceas negative renovationstripping... Read more.
Heat Mirage
“Mi amor es paso, tránsito, larga muerte gustada”-Federico García LorcaSun spotlights the measured pass of hours:slow wilt of alcohol and tobaccoin the bare... Read more.