Ghazal 28 (‘like this’)
Only grass is hurt when two bulls lock horns like this.
Even the sun was ashamed. Were we born like this?
Airborne Hope
in china, a farmer sows
a mountain filled with ambitious wishes of
jade rings and lush, velvet beds sailing
blessings to new york.
Ghazal of And
Sometimes, in school, I felt lonely thinking about conjunctions and
commas. The sentence ended before I knew it, but I wanted and.
The Venturi Effect
You may have thought, from visiting art shows,
that canyons squeezed together on their way
downstream.
Voice Lessons
At forty, I hired a vocal coach.
My husband had taken a new
friend—he swore it was platonic,
her name unimportant.