Close to 2 a.m., in a tiny cabin of a dorm in south Paris — there was nothing glamorous about it. An empty wine bottle on the floor. Microwaved meals on the table. Scouring our old Word documents for decent writing, bickering over edits …
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i want to wear a qípáo too
culture-repairers don’t want to read / just dead white men or /
wear them …
Hazed
Hazed is a short collection of poetry on the total penetration of the palm oil industry in our daily life, as well as its oft unseen effects on animals, plants, and indigenous communities. By destabilizing our capitalist human gaze, I rediscovered the magnitude of the problem—not only are non-human lives completely destroyed, but the palm […]
A True War Story
Up in the mountains, we found a baby VC water buffalo. It had no reason to be there, but then neither did we, if you sat and thought hard about it. A few of us chased the thing down, Rat Kiley and Timmy and Sanders and me, and took it with us to camp …
what kind of city is florence?
florence is the kind of city that sells postcards / and plastic david statues near the checkout lanes in the grocery store / the kind of city where every leather shop is named after a great artist / and every hotel has a botticelli ceiling fresco …
Nantes is on Fire
Near the Loire, the elaborate, immaculately kept homes and offices of slave traders still stand in plain sight. Soiled by time, their stature began to sink into the sand. What remains is their bravado: across the buildings, carvings of stone heads narrate the wealth of their former owners …
Artemis
If she had, the astonished stars might have dropped dead to litter our driveways …
unMute
Their moon-muscle /
moved silence /
somewhere else …
Geography IV
war had been declared /
by intellectuals sipping coffee. /
they run away from predatory eyes …
Spell Criminal With a ‘K’
The five year old, the nine year old, the teenager, /
the woman remembers /
fist flurry against the dog /
fist thunder around her skull …
The voice saying in French
murmur mixing / in total silence / strange, hidden, logical …
Fleeting Royal Soles
Streetlights’ orange glow /
against smaller other-color lights …
