Anthologies
Umbrella category for anthologies; individual issues separated by tags
notes on anticipation
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking.
Two Poems
The new year begins in winter white embroidery— / trumpeter swans and needle-slim herons piercing / drainage ditches.
The Year of Getting Better
“It’s the year of getting better,” her mother said as she walked into the room. It was Thora’s second hospital stay of the year.
Memory, a Lacuna
My mother and grandmother were born in ‘the land of the lake,’ or La Comarca de la Laguna, a cradle of fertile land between the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in the northern Mexican desert
Every Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible.
Math Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat.
Tributary
The year I meet granpa my hands mimic clouds. / Charybdis turning turpid pools / beneath his globes— vision I have awaited.
For the Gentleness of Our Leaving
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort.
SAMBATYON
There is a river, lost or hidden, that is impossible to pass six days each week.
Electrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
