夢は～

昨日の夜、the cover of my chapbook を夢を見た。まんがみたいだった。Like panels from a comic book. 二つ panels。まずは、女が車の前で。ちょうど出したかもしれない。Coming toward the viewer. 次は、in panel two、女がせっきんで、左に回した。彼女は、プロフィールの体を見えた。Being cut off by the borders of the frame, her profile. 急いだった？And if so, why?

the Modern bird

Simile is only one bird who comes down, too easily.

the Modern bird

Reflected in our parents' eyes we thought we saw
a wire-wrapped oceanic sky--the hanging feet
of the last few birds to exit the surrounding frame:
a pit of sulfurous earth.

the Collab bird

From last year, at Likestarlings, JMW and Hoa Nguyen doing their collab thing.


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Posting on the occasion of everybody's sunlit fire-escapes. On the occasion of melting toys. The grainy remembrance of cross-country breathing; the long freeways that fill my body; letters to people & of people. Air, sea, couch. On the occasion of every snowy afterthought being cohesive and still. The occasion of poetry being something we will count in years / something we count by rolling out of bed / rolled over the window panes this morning // counted poems for you in the dimples of our roof.

Happy Birthday J!

the Modern bird

A & B: Beautiful, beautiful the road stretching, birdlike, yawn- / ing from its nest, not all caught up in itself, not googling / itself admiringly, just being its daily self,  how we all ride / its coattails.

the Modern bird

                                                        Everybody loves a martyr in
   blue pajamas, throwing up in her white, white house. Your fault
   her cakes won't rise and birds find the windows violently.

the Modern bird

      
       a street
there is

where strange birds       purr


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BIRDPILE.


"BIRDPILE" in flight? or
grounded (dead)?


Meaning
brutally dragged in.