Mistaken for a bird, but I
know better, see the stars,
what they've scattered over
cheeks, how they've built a
bridge between wet eyes and
clever lips; their light is
no different than The Sun's
clustered close like that--
how bright you shine, then,
how easily you take wing.
For my friend on the occasion of her wedding. What I know of mirrors is their imperfection, their imbalance of mathematics: one reflects one, & we imagine this is wholeness & we believe we know oursel
For my friend on the occasion of his wedding. No eye for art, you said, and turned toward Hunger, livid color leaving you cold, neither keen, nor compelling, not enough, not when you already know how
It is not Death that watches us with suspicion, yet you invoke Her name anyway, make of Her a boundary, make of me an earthen intimacy. There is no revelry in roots no matter how deep they run, only f