What if I want to go devil instead? Bowdown to the madness that makes me. Droneof the neighbor’s mowing, a red mailbox flagerected, a dog bark from three houses over,and this is what a day is.From Ada Limon's " Late Summer After a Panic Attack" ...

Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I knew to be circling inside me.From "Summ...

if i could singyou would hear me and i would tell youit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alright it would be something like thatFrom Juan Felipe Herrera's "Song Out Here" Today I claim it's gonna be alright as a mantra. T...

Porch swing, summer in a glass./ Drinks get named for thirsts we discuss.// Discussions skirt deeper thirsts./Such thirsts burn, turn sand to mirages./ A mirage is a drink the mind mixes./In a glass marked no it pours out yes.// Yes, the sign says, t...