Poetry

  Translated by Gabriella Bedetti & Don Boes   I am a whirlwind of meaning I unravel in what words can no longer say I am so full...

  Note: The experimental poems below are accompanied by the poet's note (in italics) about their style & construction.  * Dromic I did live doom as a mood...

  Translation by Aaron Devine   I don’t inhabit a country; I inhabit a body —broken— meekly unfurling over voracious ruins and breathing the smoke of burnt days. I don’t inhabit a...

    Self-Portrait with Saint Augustine Splintered toenail, bug bitten navel, fungus in the crevasse, sprout of warts on the heel of hand and foot. The list grows with age. The...

    One of Twelve Steps “I thought we were going out for dinner. I’ve been waiting.” “You’re drunk. I can’t go out with you now.” She could barely...

  Translated by Danijela Trajković   Karma The Sun will outlast the day, Van Gogh’s blue ear flies. A whisper like the cut of destiny Bleeds on the glass Of peeled words. You...

    midnight brain My brain behaves a bit differently as I lay it down to rest. Ideas hatch, grow wings and mature into challenges. Limitations—they melt and lose...

    earth was insured power pack was a beef rondo to scape a flex the calm noun of the hot dog chain a fifty of the lemon rescue the...

    Name of this Tree Its fine limbs rise, seeking the vertical, cutting thick air with jagged leaves, crowned at the top with five-fingered trumpets of delicate pink-tinged with...

    Orbiting Night rose over the waves, the rain of night dove through waves of air, moon view, the sea comes to fix your headdress, the sea comes to...