Curtailed Sonnet
He closed his eyes when I asked him to but I couldn’t then, we were so young. So we […]
He closed his eyes when I asked him to but I couldn’t then, we were so young. So we […]
after Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers,Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1890Toledo Museum of Art He wears no shrouded hood,
We were abused by being made to abuse one another: who could stand longest kicked in the crotch? Roll in
It doesn’t matter if he forgets sometimes how to speak English, slips back into French, because he doesn’t say much
I currently teach English (at least this semester—you never know) as an adjunct at El Camino College and Cal State Long Beach. The word ‘adjunct’ means a thing added to something else, supplementary and inessential. It’s the outsider status that has always informed my poetry.