—Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 2002 Army Basic Training: we march and sing cadence everywhere we go. The chow hall. The motor pool of tanks. The obstacle course. Whether the march lasts two minutes or two hours, we sing, and depending on the drill sergeant, the cadence can involve anything from love of army to homesickness, …
“Sometimes there’s nothing you can do,” my mom consoles her friend, upset about her son. Both women quit smoking, but we’ve all seen how a lit cigarette can catch like a lost fishhook hungry for flesh. Most wildfires ignite from human oversight, but you can’t blame the mother. In his garage my cousin playing with …
The Museum of Mothers is free on Fridays.I go with Rheim, who is also not a mother, though she carries around a bag of needlesshe bought years ago from an Iraqi woman everyone called Zahra. Rheim gave namesto each of their lean metallic bodies. We start in the sculpture garden, which the curatorshave named Sorry …
(To use the PDF embedder to see both pages of the poem, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.) Text: Among the early arrivals / the island Pulau Bidong / before us / uninhabited / archipelago / night float downriver / spilling into a sea storm / in the overheated engine an explosion / …
a golden shovel / after Against Me! All I ever wanted to be—the summerdaydreamed of. Girl in the floral-print dress& endless golden fields. I just wanted youto future me, when so many people wantme past-tensed. I know I can’t convince themI deserve survival. A future togrow up into. I know that they can’t seea girl’s …
stares down head and claw on the tableto make something whole again. Perhaps she’s unnerved by the prospect, deathback to life. But that we crave not just intact but true is the first wish as whenan old mount from the ’30s is taken out of the standard formal pose-of-that-day, itsupright-for-eternity habit of ninety years, its …
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