Poetry

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Against Adjudication [I-II]

“In another life, my / fate would be a throne of orchids, / gargantuan. Vanilla flowers would sprout wherever I walked.”

“tell me about my birth my migration / my coming to this language not my language”

“he stared into the abyss, computer monitors under the screensaver’s spell, he / kept looking, never a backward glance but ahead”

Over the course of the last month, the world has watched violence unfold at a shocking pace across …

“The ripening of our women is a legacy / of burning. We leave behind nothing / but seeds.”

“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”

“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”

“A god we could not touch touched / our bodies & we became like light.”

“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”