“I’m just excited that my first time voting in a presidential election was for a woman,” my daughter said

“yeah,” I said

“that’s so exciting,” I said

What dispossessed me sat erect beside the checked quilt in fishnets.

& no I'm still not thirsty / although i find myself / thinking too frequently / about jagerbombs

I got my dad’s big nose and people make fun of me for it.

[victory lobe] 

tiny towns or a dog could keep me pleased  

for six months, then I’d wear felt triangles  

look<a class="more" href="/web_features/five-poems--10">... more</a>

Because anytime is the right time for a haiku.

I usually distance myself from someone after i’m physical with them.

Understand, neurotic perfectionists are mostly calculated

thinking about how all of it started

thinking about how the poems ends

Once, at the watering hole, a man with a knit-closed eye

kissed me until I spat up a silver coin.

four small test tubes.

Your face, my light. What terrible things I’d do for it. 

But life was good for clowns back then

Trump &amp; A Syllabus of Goals

To gift you the stink of goats.
To gift you bright whey.
To neon-bright your mouth

with<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--81">... more</a>

Portrait, with Negative Space

Running faucet, orange light hollow as a pill bottle,
images submerged in a bath of chemicals,<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--80">... more</a>

Tiny Evolutions

okay so let’s talk
about the exes we mythologize
for the wrong reasons   like leave
a toothbrush at my<a class="more" href="/web_features/five-poems--9">... more</a>

MONUMENT

YOU SPECIFY IN YOUR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT “BURY ME WHERE I STAND” SO THEY REMOVE A CHUNK OF TILES FROM THE FLOOR IN<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--79">... more</a>

Class Aves

Anyone that ever heard the call
of the Rodrigues Solitaire

is long dead, but its name is trapped in<a class="more" href="/web_features/three-poems--43">... more</a>

On Miracles

Jesus trained a dolphin to swim up under him and lift him over the waves.

Jesus wanted to show everyone his<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--78">... more</a>

Asian Pen Name*

Mine is Kien,
which is useful
in cases
where I need
to prove
I am who I say
I am,
like the time
a<a class="more" href="/web_features/five-poems--8">... more</a>

Dear Katie

The movie we watched the night you told me you were leaving your husband for a girl with skin rough as a butcher’s<a class="more" href="/web_features/three-poems--42">... more</a>

Being There

Describing my body is easy
because I do not know what it looks like.

From above, I imagine my face
when it<a class="more" href="/web_features/four-poems--10">... more</a>

Red Teeth

Left work early to meet delivery peeps at my building. 100 weeks ago we ordered a couch. Tell ya, I've never seen two<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--77">... more</a>

Outside

I keep finding myself loitering in the snow, watching strangers clink their glasses through the window's frosted glare. In<a class="more" href="/web_features/two-poems--76">... more</a>