Abstract #1:

She cried me a river

which I populated

with salmon.

She then fished

up my nose

for coke fiend

dreams

to tell her

unstoried friends

but I was unpowdered

like puff the magic dragon.

Day 2:

Why

He is not… Read full post »

like choppy water,
frothy and forthright,
she spouts

destroying
the placidity of my man
made emotions

structurally unsound
deficient of reason
wet like woman
she is fit
only for swallowing

We’ve all heard the phrase “got it from my Mama”. Well, what I got from my mother belongs to the realm of the untouchable. What I got from my father, though, is front and center. It’s on my face, in the dark brownness of my skin and in my “you… Read full post »

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Ghosts cursed and slammed
hardwood doors on me
as I attempted to navigate my way
through coloni… Read full post »

The other day, roam reading my way through Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, I found myself reading a delightfully powerfully poem by Frank X. Walker. I liked the poem, titled Homeopathic, so much that I googled him to see what I could find out.… Read full post »

His wizened hand reaches out from
the hospital bed to touch
her too thin forearm.

I’m eating, she says. Read full post »

the referencing of rain
as the inbred cousin
of disaster
recklessly
breeding babies
given the names
of diseases
i can’t help.

here, no notions
of amber waves
no bombs that burst
like they do
over there

here, bombs
deconstruct dams
decimate pride
homogenize
neighborhoods
and otherwise act
as agents
of social c… Read full post »

 (this is a revision of a poem previously posted in may as "apple pie")

in the beginning
he was hale and hearty
with the look of someone
who fed regularly
on pork and corn.

he and the others
who looked just like him
rejoiced
at the chance to spread
such heartiness abroad
but then came bodies
harden… Read full post »

The hills my brothers & I created
Never balanced, & it took years
To discover how the world worked.
We could look at a tree of blackbirds
& tell you how many were there,
But with the scrap dealer
Our math was always off.
Weeks of lifting & grunting
Never added… Read full post »

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time--
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a… Read full post »

In the World language, sometimes called
Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola
under it is a symbol for speculation.

Thumbs down to ear and tongue:
World can be written and read, even painted
but not spoken. People use their own words.

Latin letters are in it for names, for… Read full post »

I

He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
And snow disfigured the public statues;
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.

Far from his illness
The wolves ran on through the ev… Read full post »

The House of Sand and Fog engaged me from the opening lines when I encountered Massoud Amir Behrani, a colonel under the former Shah of Iran. Now an immigrant in the San Francisco Bay Area, he works back-breaking… Read full post »

Thank you for inviting me to this today. It is always an honour and a pleasure to be here, among you (at the European Parliament).

However, I must admit I believe you should have invited a Palestinian woman at my stead, because the women who suffer most… Read full post »

Musical is the melody of my words

this freaky Friday when fellatio is the first

thing you utter but my tongue is already prepared

to undulate in tonal movements both dulcet and flat.

The warp to your woof, I arch myself over your earth.… Read full post »

Statement by Jewish Activists and Organizations active in BDS against Israel

A Jewish response to the February 2011 Statement of Jewish Zionist Organizations on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)… Read full post »