Young Poets

Four Haiku

Rattle / September 5, 2020

dark night men interrupting the silence late days outgrown my grownup’s costume butterfly the rain still happens just the view […]

Rattle / August 29, 2020

Ever since Parkland, My parents have been waking up early To see me before I catch the bus. This is

Rattle / August 22, 2020

Favelas that I could not see slide down In the mud of my memories, clanking Tin roofs I slew past

Rattle / August 15, 2020

My mom told me last night a shrimp’s heart lives in its head. You’re the same way, she says stroking

Rattle / August 8, 2020

after David Graham, “Self-Portrait with Self-Doubt” Some Tuesdays, when bordering ourselves at What I named the dusty turf, leaves were

Rattle / August 1, 2020

after Jamaica Kincaid Put the water in the pan before you heat up the pan; salt the water before you