• plastic tank

    I made myself a spectator
    At the wall of your world
    My hands touching the glass
    Your body breathing through the water
    Everything bubbling and bright and dangerous
    I called out to you, but you couldn’t hear me
    Your lungs like iron, and then:
    A year passed in silence,
    Years long gone and chewed up and spit out
    When it was all over, I knocked
    And I said, Swim!

  • legend of lovers

    memory blooms
    like summer
    below our feet
    my name in the wind,
    a passing train
    quiet, stubborn time
    nothing abusive,
    nothing exceptional,
    a distance, infinitely expanding
    i watch you turn to snow,
    then to rain.

  • haikus i

    wide river of time
    i sob for a hundred years
    and flow to your gates

    rain pools in two hands
    i see your face without age,
    without anecdote

    the winter remembers
    a girl who had nothing but
    the horse on her back