Untitled IX, 1982
June 5, 2023
I counted 44 lines and while I counted, 44 Asian women were touched.
Guernica
Poetry
Poetry
AudioPoetry
Paper Hummingbirds
April 5, 2023
I’m afraid of what’s beyond the dishes / we wash in retrieved lake water.
AudioPoetry
At the Gallery
April 5, 2023
Finally at the gallery, the couple (all fiction of them), / she in that white bustier, he with the cutout
AudioPoetry
Gravitational Constant
November 30, 2022
Even after some time, I am still the weeping wound in the houseplant, / tearing easily.
AudioPoetry
Wrong Distance
November 16, 2022
Don’t you miss me as if I were dead? // That’s how you’d like to be loved.
Poetry
People’s Teeth
November 9, 2022
One question of childhood: why / do some people have gold teeth?
AudioPoetry
Radical Surgeon of My Own Life
October 19, 2022
To wait for something to open, that’s optimism.
ExcerptPoetry
“The beautiful dream that we unfold and extend…”
October 11, 2022
"Turn, forever going to your other side / turn your body on the space..."
AudioPoetry
Brief History
September 28, 2022
The night the flag of the British empire came down / in my country, the cry of a mottled wolf was heard in the wild.
AudioPoetry
Cruel World As a Litany Of Stars
September 21, 2022
Forgive me, I did not mean to copy your life.
Poetry
spirit animal
September 14, 2022
At this point, / my body’s beastly smell / starts to be all that matters.
Poetry
Speaking Alone
September 7, 2022
senseless here’s the man with the crystal contractions / with the rumor of sand with a doll’s past tense
Poetry
In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky
August 10, 2022
One morning, on a wet day during the week...
Poetry
Hypertension
July 27, 2022
In the early 1870s, at the mouth of the Big Bend tunnel, / John Henry beat a mechanical steam drill in a “steel driving” / contest.
AudioPoetry
Search Party
July 20, 2022
Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled / a hundred russets.
AudioPoetry
Bringing Up Mother
July 13, 2022
I was not dressed correctly when / motherhood interviewed me.
AudioPoetry
If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear
June 29, 2022
Another poem mannequin- / Ing the body.
Poetry
from Beyond the Somber Station
June 22, 2022
Thought reduced to ashes — / in the golden sky tracing lines.
AudioPoetry
The Christmas Poem
June 15, 2022
there are thousands of days left / tens of thousands if we’re lucky
AudioPoetry
A Poem Is a Landscape of the Mind
June 8, 2022
It was the winter of my life. Afternoons, / I watched light fade / from the faces of brownstones.
AudioPoetry
When the Sky Is Closed
June 1, 2022
Not even children who brave the street / Will notice the robins, mistaking them for nightingales.
Poetry
Hope Dissidents
May 25, 2022
When we die, / the cemetery keeper tires / of surveilling our graves’ windows.
Poetry
One Hundred Percent House
May 18, 2022
A house where no one lives / needs someone to draw it full of glass, / then smash that glass to bits.
Poetry
In the Field of the Dead
May 4, 2022
I have brought the wrong kind of sandwiches / and yes, I know this poem is supposed to bring us there
Poetry
Contemporary Utopia
April 20, 2022
Skilled carpenters / excellent mechanics / energized farmers / fierce fighters
AudioPoetry
AFTER SEVEN YEARS I’M HOME AGAIN & ANIMAL AS EVER
April 14, 2022
I think back / to childhood— // to this state / & its former rainfall
Poetry
the wind would not stop
April 6, 2022
a child licks the candy wrapper; the treat has fallen into the mud.
AudioPoetry
Without Them
March 23, 2022
Thirsty / doesn’t describe what we’re looking for, / yet for some it means desperate for another’s touch.
Poetry
With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones
March 11, 2022
With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones. / Clouds are pressing on my shoulders,
Poetry
Bomb that tree line back about a hundred yards. Give me room to breathe.
February 16, 2022
Daughter, I think you embellish. A bomb / is nothing like a slammed door.
Poetry
After the Offering Ritual, Cain Carries Abel Home
February 9, 2022
Violence is a failure of communication. / The shoulder severed from the dream / of the socket.
Poetry
from and when the light comes it will be fantastic
February 2, 2022
This landscape snares us with its dry stalks
Poetry
When You Land at Ben-Gurion Airport
January 12, 2022
a convocation of desert eagles rises from your spleen, / each one carrying a stone
Poetry
when I say hello to the oldest apples
December 6, 2021
they tell me / a mountain is good for me
Poetry
The Summer Your Parents Split
December 6, 2021
All my life I never told you how quiet it was / on the dismount
Poetry
Forgiveness
November 10, 2021
It was the winter of manatees, Captain / Rhonda and her chartered pontoon boat / floating down the Crystal River.
Poetry
American Monster
October 28, 2021
"Thursday, I am born, / of the white glove’s lazy C-section"
AudioPoetry
Earning Keep
October 26, 2021
“You can see the pure it-ness / of anything if you cut it right”
AudioPoetry
The Daughter Myth
October 14, 2021
“Say then that I am overflowing / & nobody’s fool & did not give up"
Poetry
On Being Asked What I Am Tired Of
October 7, 2021
The weather of course and the afternoon light / that might as well be bad milk
Poetry
From Aterrizar no es regreso
September 16, 2021
“On the islands, leaving comes to seem like the natural thing to do.”
Poetry
Propuesta de Financiamiento para el Plan de No Hacer Nada / Funding Proposal for the Do-Nothing Plan
September 15, 2021
“I will need a grant of a million or two. / A million or more.”
Poetry
Against Empire: A Folio of Puerto Rican Writers
September 13, 2021
Guest editors Raquel Salas Rivera and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado introduce three writers who “counter the loneliness and exploitation of U.S. capitalism.”
Poetry
The Show of Growth
August 19, 2021
"And right there and then, I showed her, I wouldn’t be of much use."
AudioPoetry
My Mom Buried a Saint in the Yard
August 12, 2021
Not like you think, but yes, he’s upside down.
Poetry
The Night is an Eruption of Nebulas
August 5, 2021
A pipe is a globe of loss— the baby / has no diapers and auntie had to bring some by.
Poetry
Limbs Astride, Land to Land
August 3, 2021
"Static pinging / at the edges of thought: the sound a wall makes / powering down.”
Poetry
Passing Through
July 8, 2021
“Her father is dying, her father / is Beirut and Akka and a single building in this world.”
Poetry
from Bodies
July 1, 2021
“Like ash or nearing the fabrication of mirrors / or alcoholic drinks”
AudioPoetry
Metamorphic Sonnet
June 3, 2021
How could I not praise the Chinese grandmother / rocking her floral print tracksuit?
AudioPoetry
Bulbous with an Egregious Silence
May 27, 2021
“while the aunties sit weaving an awful dress of effrontery / —and I wish we could be alive in several ways but this one”
Poetry
relapse dream
May 20, 2021
"& when will i be emptied by what a night doesn’t promise instead of what it does”
AudioPoetry
Man at Desk
May 13, 2021
There’s a man who sits at his desk this evening, / bearing witness to the end of days.
Poetry
Umm Kulthum Singing for the Prophet
April 22, 2021
The Star of the East sings for the Prophet / while I release my song
AudioPoetry
LOS ÁNGELES
March 18, 2021
We’re going to see the angels / my father says but in Spanish
Poetry
A Bulldozer’s American Dream
March 4, 2021
At the construction site the bulldozer works days & nights. / No, it is the man inside who works.
Poetry
Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard
January 14, 2021
Who parted / your shell, in wedge & tear?
Poetry
The Living Dead
December 10, 2020
They do not think that they will disappear / into the amusement park / of
nothingness.