Why Everything Is Everything

          for my daughter

Because earth is spinning
     and spinning and circles
a yellow star. Because
     gases burning, flaring
above the poles we spin
   

BIG TIME

okay i’ll be doing my best to     explain myself, to     say i did the best i could with what i
had and you     did the same      my mom will be bringing home ice cream soon
     she

Holistic Medicine

Hungover, I google How To: Self-Care.
A recipe for kale juice guarantees
wholesomeness. I buy a juicer, stain
the counter with spilt optimism.

Attend laughter yoga, trick

Quarantine (March 17, 2020)

Through the west wall
our neighbors still
decide to get drunk.

You go into the basement,
pull out a red bag–
hammer and nails.

Framed photo of your

A Perfect Pitch

Throwing under-handed
his fastball started curving
over home plate
so I swung at the pitch
and bought the bat for my son
which was too heavy for him
in his first little league

Dream Vision of Frank O’Hara

    it is 4:40 and I’m drenched in moonstone, sequins, fishnets, and general getting-out
    of-bedness at the corner of 11th Avenue and 30th hoping for something

KISS ME THRU THE PHONE

trembling     string between two cans
     across town     fry-gravel longing compressed      voice-tightrope
transposed, delivered to you     I don't know how it happens-

FOMO

It’s hard to look back
when your neck is pressed
against a wall of ignorance and bliss

I don’t know my history
‘cause I didn’t see it happen

I guess it was
during the bathroom

Transpacific Passage through my Hungers

I wake up famished
after dreaming of my Halmuni.
Her sturdy hands spooning galbijjim
into wooden bowls. At first light, I Godzilla
Google maps for every

So Mom didn’t come with us to the grocery
store, but she insisted when a box of Grape Nuts
or Popsicles tasted off it was because we hadn’t
selected the box behind the first, that hiding
in the

After the earth becomes a brutalist’s wet concrete dream...

Be sure it's not wrapped...

"Ryan" and "LMGTFY"

...not enough steroids, / the wrong steroids... 

"Lint Roller," "Procrastinator," and "Haircut"

It takes falling in love, staying there...

...How to say / hello without breaking / stride...

"Sitting on Our Half of the Porch..." and "I Had a Dream Last Night..."

o lion mane and petalled armore, / you sweet corona of twist & curl...

Fruitfly [64], [76], and [77]

I ask you to toss me something heavier than your name
to hold, less perishable than the peonies stolen
fresh as bruises.

My hands,
dumb with clay questions
they don’t know how
to shape, write every love song
into elegy.

While tromping the snowless woods
for a Christmas tree
I stepped on a deer’s spine,
well, half a deer, really,
   which is another mystery in itself.
I called over my son, and
we perused every

How harrowing it must be to swallow the syrupy scraps of night,
then ask for more.

I love you best
like this: sun in your hair, a heavy daze
of pollen on your eyelids.