TMLYMI v8
Love Poem
I know, I know; I always leave too soon, I never stay my complete welcome. But please, for now drive my car through the ridges of your childhood. In the lull of traffic, I sink into your sweet ordinary. Cram …
Begrudging Elegy for a Grief that is Mine
In conversation with Geoffrey Hill’s September Song and Two Formal Elegies I know the dead whom you have deposed. Welcome to New England, pasture populated with serrated tussock teeth and African lovegrass, the old ways lined with laurel and birch …
kaha, tamawahine / tipuna wahine
The afternoon plays with promises stung lonelinesses straddling each other cooking t i m e sipping grain from yesterday’s wallpaper & they say kindness is corrugated & they say blue horses babble like consonants & they say palm is the …
Magnetic
Distracting, Eye catching. Being magnetic, Is not free. It costs hands on your body, That you did not ask for, And, Eyes that only look through you. It costs the aches and pains, Of standing up on your own, And …
Spring Clean
Stacks of dusty newspapers an omission of memories like the broken shells shoved under Mum’s mattress next to her marbles in a chest. Morsels of salt treasures that thaw and crackle at midnight when I long for the sea to …
Aya
the ceasing of the heart evokes pineal eruptions. everything that was is, will be – expanding into neurons, a supernova. if dying is not your thing, but you’d like to try it, hold the lighter to the glass; sink into …
Prosperity Toss
abundance through the year sliced thinly good luck and smooth sailing segments, loosely broken good luck is approaching peeled and julienned forever young peeled and julienned progress at a fast pace peeled and julienned household filled with gold and silver …
The name of a bird is heaven
After a trans reading of Dickinson’s I dreaded that first robin so I did not attend the robin’s arrival, weary of its frantic threshing as we both resisted capture. The fusion of seasons agitated the both of us, and each …
stat dec (not legal advice)
i once signed a stat dec made of three lonely words i am queer what have you declared? i sign others to solemnly declare that i need a little bit of help so here’s a stat dec template to use …
dreams where you’re the white kind of queer
There used to be this dream we had of becoming women in a way our men wouldn’t wanna be. I asked the boys for a hand but they’re too busy reminding me that their purpose is fucking when it’s so …
use case scenarios
@startuml : I : -right- (kept sitting) rectangle everywhere { everywhere —up— : I : : as } (kept sitting) -right-> : you : : there : you : -right-> (were) : maybe note right of (were): on the other …
A test for the disciple of art
Are we more arrogant in putting our suffering over that which is beautiful or in elevating beauty over the suffering of others? Every heart has flaws Each unique in their configuration What flaws has your heart? What is Beauty without …
summer loving
Summer’s gold hums on the horizon. Brothers and sisters, the oysters are in season. A promise then, we will fill our bellies tonight. We’ll be seduced in a tumble of kangaroo grass and yam daisies. Step softly into our circle. …
To Stella
My hair falls, some days, like an uninteresting question. I take my coffee to sit in the green chair by the window and gather into the soul, slow- ly, certain shards of light too small to note. O my life, …
if i died and went to heaven
if i were rich and famous would you marry me? if i were better looking and three inches taller would you marry me? if i was on time more often would you marry me? if i went vegan would you …
You Want to Chat with Me on Discord?
I: [T]HEY SAY: you’ll never be happy no matter what date it’s changed to so they leave their celebration of national pride on the genocidal jubilee of colonisation ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ { {Drinks and Drugs and Sports, Oh My} } …
gridlock of queens
i miss the way we lived gridlock of queens nestled in your father’s money not any loss, sure, but anything conceivable say, 9, 18—inconsequential. 27 down, still comfortable, hungry to feel hungry in time to taste it on me. by …
New rarest mineral on earth
Elephants are cute for IG pictures on vacation but not when they’re drowning in murky waters buried under the weight of someone else’s emissions some days it feels like I’m watching the world fall apart and I am willing it …
There are wings – 羽 in the pagewind of translation – 翻
I would like to write a poem my mother can translate word for word. We sit either side of a long table & ask the world’s accountant for everything to balance out, for the poem to mean what it means. …
Dog Act(or)
Dog actors are the ultimate method actors A dog actor does not know they’re acting & as such fully inhabits The Dog Become so Dog-like it is impossible To distinguish the dog’s everyday existence From The Dog’s narrative The plot …
