March 2023

A snake lies in the open, dormant
in its sleeve of heat. A gilded orphan
on the sun-warmed dirt, eye-slits ajar,
waiting for the infinite to arrive.
You want to strike it with a stick.
You want an answer to the prayer
that says, Make use...

Phoenix Art Museum, 2018

Long ago I learned the trick,
             walk away       when you see
your own      reflection.
             Walk     into the hard swallow,
unflinching    as it is. Uncertainty
             unfolds     like a firefly’s flicker.     I know
my body       must be swarmed.
             What overwhelms me?—
Accumulation,
             panoramic &...

We stay in a room the ocean accepts
as its accompaniment. Picture-frame window, one
bright line across it. Crashing waves
heard through the insulation as a continuous loop
in a film about apocalypse. Last night
the party, the ungentleness of love
of loving your friends, of...