Regret Tattoos
The tattoo artist said
everyone with multiple tattoos
has at least one regret tattoo,
slip a thumb in a belt loop
I’m Lying in Bed Now
after having taken an aspirin
and googling about my heart,
how it could be acid reflux or
a heart attack (big difference)
96th Street
she lives in a one-bedroom; her cat died last fall. she sat
next to him when they put him to sleep,
but she couldn’t watch the needle entering his front leg.
Lunar New Year in Hanoi: A Haibun
A few minutes after waking I hear the incessant subtle slow ticking of the clock that depresses me with the feeling of seconds as a unit of time, how limiting that is, cutting out the past, constricting the present, turning the future into oblivion.
The Romance of Middle Age
Now that I’m fifty, let me take my showers at night …
Complete Facts about a Woman I Love Dearly
At nine years old, a woman I love made tea as
men married her off to an eighteen-year-old gent.