The Doctor of Starlight
“Show me the place,” he said.
I removed my shirt and pointed
to a tiny star above my heart.
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Poetry
Angel Island
at the Angel Island Immigration Station our bodies levitated in minutes, ticking, ticking, alive, alive; forgo mercy and forgo hunger; slurp the pig slop; our muscles in 1911, 1912, we turned ghost and ghost again
Returning Home in Winter
Here, the fog horns seem to multiply,/clocks and bells grieve louder./Strange how I never noticed them before.
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Sea-Bands™
I got them first to navigate the waters/ of pregnancy, so I could ride the subway/ without gorge rising, without feeling faint.
Ballad of Puppetry and the Fifth Estate
She was told no. She would not stop.
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Two Figures on a Bridge
As a child I’d ask my father
why though still awake
he closed his eyes.
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The View from There
They skim
the trees along
the road we’re cycling down,
and rise on billowing gusts across
the countryside
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Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treat Machu Picchu
Centuries ago, laborers raised tons of stone without the wheel to build Machu Picchu; Pizarro and his army of conquistadores missed it, leaving the stones untouched. Now, hands snap towers,crack walls, wreck temples, stuffing sticky rubble into mouths. Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treat Machu Picchu lies in ruins.
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