A body, lying behind an unbuilt house, forming— I want a body made from young leaves said an ageless tree. Answer: Yes, it was leafless. No, not lifeless—I know a girl who wishes to speak, indicating, with her head’s tilt, she is also falling asleep.Her mother (or a distant bird): Hush, don’t worry— An entity …
In the back seat of the yellow bus, our heads whirled round like tops upon gingham frocks. Summer on the cusp& overnight we busted into beasts with golden leg hair,stench, butterfly clips, & hip bones that appeared in rooms before us. In the ’90s, we were damn fine, serpentine,had lick me eyes at eleven, split-tongued …
from Hong Kong Sonnets Meet me at the back of the libraryby the nonfiction that has yet to be banned.I’ll wear white, white like the orchids that stand by the bathroom window in a wearyTsuen Wan apartment, lan fa the veryflower I’m named after, white like the flower planted on our red flag, and isn’t …
from Hong Kong Sonnets Yes, yes. Let’s watch TVB after lunch. Sitcoms before dinner, during dinner, and afterward too. Check for the winner to this season’s singing teens, naive bunch with the luxury to ignore see wuy. Munch on this like talking protests is for sinners.Eat it up because God forbid we get thinner and …
i count: rising tufts of dandelions, shaved grass clinging to a bottle of motor oil and bees thumping against the clean glass. like wind beating in waves, form follows function, and those aches press forward, call the thin-hipped ghosts we shaped in silence to stir more ashes in their cups. i could be wrong. again. …
i from -gher (proto-indo-european) meaning to grasp. to enclose.same root as the sanskrit word for house. so let’s suggest the body as container, body as garden.the first blessing of every mother: body become shelter, body, hold her warm, body, i beg, do not unclench her, body, if you host her zygote, i will forgive you.amongst …
then, some tablets some theft some Gimme that some YeahSome records of disbursement: a dead ram Then a head of a womana head of a man some crowns of acanthus leaves and apples Everyone with perfectly drilled pupilsSome familiars and some half-gods whose errant descendants perform a series of laborsin atonement First the serpent then …
Don’t let the blue hat at the museum fool you. It’s a bird that occurs repeatedly, a bird that, in spite of disparagement, is on the horizon. It’s a bird in the third person that lands on the second person’s head, who has seven sons who were lost in the woods, who learned from owls …
In memoriam, Gary Rader (1946–2017) I The eye’s plain vision is not what it sees, or what it understands, or even whatit ignores, but what it passes over,like an angel among the mountains, an angel above the entrance, retinal, peripheral, both seen and unseen, dark things without a double,without shadow. Landscape is anotherkind of language, …
“The great subconscious goal of the 1980s may often have been to rid American films of the late 1960s/early 1970s rebellious figures. “ —Donald Bogle In The Toy the toy is Jack Brown played by Richard Pryorthe comedian the movie a comedy in which a young white boy buys has his father buy Brown a …