Zuppa di Tusce

father made it with
crab for shogatsu, my shez
is Gregorian

Teotitlan

I've dropped alfalfa,
cochineal, sapote ne-
gro onto the rug

Last Big Wind of the Year

power outage, breath
tumbling into living room,
our arrested lunch

Zapotec Menu, Revised Worldview

worm, grasshopper, fruit
of the forest, mountain la-
dy, sing my disease

A Rough Night, Rougher Morning

saturday night fe-
ver in mezcal and curry--
disco inferno

This Waking Code

this mug of ice, mug
of morning, red burner plates
confused with coffee

Tools for Fishing with Father

a red bucket and
averted eyes. Alarm clock,
grief, scaler, boner...

Spinning

we build our wings with
masking tape and dryer lint,
shez the tire-swing full

Winter over a Closed Michigan Factory

sky unfolds, cloud la-
pels, color of furniure.
No rainbow. No gold.

Coast

bluepoint oyster love,
the world is a cold bidet,
watery bird tweet

Clapton's Strange Dream, Guadalajara, 1982

shez on the drumset
wungo on guitar-- I've got
a rock 'n' roll...heart?

Elixir from the Dregs

I drop a length of
cassia bark into the
sewer. Foreign brew...

Some Kind of Vacation

Ky feeds her kids with
an orange. You crack crab. A
gull poops in your hood

Eating Ice Cream in Central Park in December, Thinking of Home

freezing in New York,
beating with blue Tokyo, my
asshole wears sweatpants

Moon Bootslop

alter your notion
of snow-- the hard not-coal in
it will stink come Spring