The top 10 and the top 2 dozen of the year. Some of these were really tight calls. And a have a dozen still underway that I may finish this year. Could happen. 2025 Poetry: Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D Graham (Model Press, 2025)Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (Stelliform Press, 2025)Hawk & Moon […]
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Year End Audit
I suppose I could do this Jan 1st and to a degree will. I had a few guiding goals going into the year: Abandon books instead of slog, read more BIPOC, more queer, more in translationmore by disabled, more in French. About 10% BIPOC. On French, I finished none. What/who counts as disabled? Bit hard […]
Loved Then, Loved Now: Early in the Morning
EARLY IN THE MORNING While the long grain is softening in the water, gurgling over a low stove flame, before the salted Winter Vegetable is sliced for breakfast, before the birds, my mother glides an ivory comb through her hair, heavy and black as calligrapher’s ink. She sits at the foot of the bed. My […]
Loved Then: Loved Now: Last at Bat
Last at Bat I remembered the right thing then I didn’t do it because I was hungry or lazy my selfish self sucked in the day as though I owned it as though the sun rose for me alone next door the dog lounged on the porch licked his own balls just because he could […]