a man stood in the mostwell understood stance.Waiting – maybe.for someone? on someone? right palm perchedon......

Or does it? Seferis knew talking does no good. When a polar bear scornsa walruswants their minerals                         land                         childrenand......

from the car Laophonte Mother damned swaneach evidentin the stretch of tarsalsfeathering forwardlike summer overwheat and......

Say “home”—but never namethe village of your birth,ancestors purgedfrom its silent orchards. Say “once”—but not that......

Wrenched from sleepin sweat-stained sheets,hair unspooling a messof ribboned dreams— how cliché to writeof restless nights,heart......

father shatters the mirror to show the lad again fatherfather rememorates the glass no man can......

i alwaysremember thefirst time i mistookthe dulcet desire for daringdevotion—the steamy ways handstangled in half-lit rooms......

it transpires with a honkthat shatters terra’s atmospherea mute swan sundering through gravity’s larynxlike a winged......