New World Alphabet
Xeriscaping. Gardening with minimal water. Xeriscaping is unpopular with many Americans who see grass as a symbol of prosperity, community, beauty, and safety.
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Poetry
Loafing
The flesh rises in still early morning like dough that wants to make bread. And I am the one to feel it passing through me into you rising easy as saying I know moves quickly into I knew it—or like after your saying I said oh you ohing me on to say oh my sadness so you could
Kitchen
From Sanjukta Bandyopadhyay’s “Kitchen,” ” After every night, every morning is the same: each human being eats-drinks-brushes his teeth, just like a human being; I don’t have any illusions.”
Ghazal: This Winter
The light is gone and not returning soon this winter.
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“N’Gii Zhibiiamaag Niijaanisag Chigamigong” or “A Poem for the Children of the Great Lakes”
Do they leave together, the language and the last breath?
Maamwimaajaan ina Anishinaabemoyaanh miinwaa neseyaanh?
Homage to John Clare
In scarcely fifty years the foxes turned by increments to dogs.
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The Summer My Cousin Went Missing
Child upon child goes, and someone’s mother is no longer that.
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