The caldera of the volcano Ijen is faded gray and completely silent. The sulfur gas keeps out all animal life—no...
Creative Work
Every day since I arrived in Paris, I have gone to the same bookstore,the one next to the Panthéon. I’m...
New York, May-June Today I put on a rain jacket for the walk to my driving lesson. The drizzle is...
Returning from a walk, we reach our house and see the light
burst a hole through the living
Each blueberry broke its thin shell
and bled, turning the whole pancake sick.
Summer pollen settled
on the taupe plywood fence you leaned over
I keep my window open when I’m afraid to go outside. But the weather’s been good—warm and honest, in that when one day is seventy degrees, the next few are too.
I did not see the iwi kūpuna¹, but their presence hollowed my bones. Beside me in the cramped backseat of...
Genesis 4:10 Forgive me, my brother; or do not. I’m sorry for envying your hands, the way they never failed...
11/28/22 I had a dream about you last night. In the dream, I was at a party that happened to...