Poems

Open House

Rattle / August 8, 2008

It’s the Day of the Dead. I send out invitations, set extra places at the table. Guests arrive. Everyone is […]

Rattle / August 6, 2008

Bernie doesn’t need artificial retardants. He walks around with carpet burns. “The key to sustenance…” Bernie begins. I lean in,

Rattle / August 4, 2008

The problem with unity is the problem with the thesis, the ego, monotheism: Everything must fit into the Idea or

Rattle / August 1, 2008

Brian Satrom CORNER STORE If there’d been an Asian-American Norman Rockwell, he might have painted a scene like this. The

Rattle / July 26, 2008

someone writes kike on the blackboard and the “k’s” pull thru the chalk, stick in my plump, pale thighs. Even

Rattle / July 23, 2008

Perhaps as a child you had the chicken pox and your mother, to soothe you in your fever or to