The Fire This Time
how much damn broke
does it take to want to
burn just before class
lung green with chaos
Awards
Awards, Poems, Rattle Poetry Prize
The Minstrel Cycle
is a group bike ride involving guys in tight pants and floppy hats with feathers, I tell my daughter. They
The One and the Other
The child hums as he carries, too late, / his grandmother’s sugar-dusted lemon-glazed cake …
The Return
When I returned to earth after forty thousand years / there were no more graves, no more cathedrals.
Who Breathed in Binders
Strange we should forget. Once between the covers of a worn leather binder
a black girl languished, her limbs linked by iron, her feet and breasts
and muscle measured, written.
Time Travel for Beginners
Every crumb of starlight
sails across the universe,
the journey of a million years
to end inside our eyes.