Category Archives: Poems

I hear kids loiteringthe hallwayI listensomething bubblesabout the back cornerof the schoolyard.
I go to the door,eyes scatter.
I call over Isaiah ask, “Something going on?”
“Nah, we’re cool.”
“You stay away from it, you hear?”
“Yes miss.”
I go for helpbut everyone has gonehome already.
Down the hall I tell the science teacher.
“Want to know what I really think?” he says.I [...]

She says she started20 years agoto writeagain.I ask if she remembersthe first momentwhen.
Her husband cuts in,he does,recites the lines too,
blushing bellow his beard,
like wintersheets warm.

You suggestthat we order our booksby color,and level by levelof packing tape,we undothe semblance of orderwe had.
Where once there were authorsthere is now joywe think.
My father smilescondescendingly while your mother askshow we’ll find our books.
They worry overthe browningof the palette,the potentialcomplicationof splitting lightinto its components.
How beautiful I thinkin the morning.

At the end of the dayI want youto be everythingI need
Which includes a hug, a reassuring look, a confidence, an awe, affection and an orgasm. I want this all at oncea taste of wine disaggregatedaptly swished, sniffed and sipped.
This concoction would surelyinclude umami and sweetgone together wrongrushedlike cold mashed potatoesunwarmedeaten for hunger.
I’m sorryfor spitting [...]

You often forget your book bagand I’m too slow to realizethere are reasons.
But afterschool the other dayyou shyly asked me if I ever watched you playbasketball.
I smiled and said I didthrough the window by my deskyou run, pass and driveharder than you fidget in herewhere I asked again for you to writeabout the events [...]