February 2023

Rain falls across the avenues.
What can I say anymore that might be
equal to this sound, some hushed
drumming that stays past the gravelly
surge of the bus. In the apartment complex
a songbird strikes a high glass note above those
rushing to work, uneasy...

Come—swim in me, tread
upon shores of cenotes
unburied. In the

water is a sheep
led by the horns, a hand there,
white-knuckled, grasping,

but it’s you blinking
through her slow lashes. You had
convinced yourself (or

were convinced) that Out
There is where Fear lives, walking
in a body not

your...

When Eloise tells Kofi she wants a divorce,
he sits naked on the kitchen floor skinning
an ox tongue to prepare Eloise’s favorite dish.
Blood trickles down his fingers onto the floor.
This is not in my head, in my head the bruised
organ is...