Anthologies 2023: On Rivers
Use for anthologies only -- as a way to sort them onto the appropriate landing pages.
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.
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.
