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I’m from schlemiel, schlemazel, and “I’m all feklept.” The second one I put in a poem about Isaac; I called him “that schlemazel, Issac.” He was kind of a nebbish, if you remember And the third’s from a Saturday Night Live...

She asks what her sarcoma means. Does it hold the earth in its myth? My offering is poetry, its lens seeking clarity with syntax and myth. This is July. Thorny shrub in the valley, slices of guava, shade of eucalyptus, camels on...

Dust falls on the horizon at the end of the freeway. It runs like a lifeline on the palm of this night. There are strip malls, used car dealerships. We pull into a half-deserted parking lot near Kmart in a ’88 blue Camry, my...

I bring a boxful from another planet, wash them under cold water in a white sink, wipe the skin with care, cut lengthwise with a paring knife, keep peel intact. If my mother were here, she would grab the fleshy pit and devour...

Climbing on the nearest branch the bittersweet clings, berries open wide, brittle petals fall. Sand may count out days, clouds blow in the wind, shadows disappear. Come now, stay now, let the petals...

Say what you will of me I prophesy a doom that is avoidable if only… Don’t believe me, read the Bible: God let two of every creature man and beast survive the Flood. When Zeus flooded Earth he, too, left one couple— but no...

(Laura Annie West) Social Services invade my home, knock on my wooden door, hurry across the dirt floor. I see the looks they share, the house, unclean, clothes full of grime, children’s faces display exhaustion of another day...

Tends to explain while complaining how insubstantial molehills used to be when mountains should have been enough. Passes over the Shh! and Hush! Forgets the impact of Shut up! Then maunders on and on about love that fades, Fates...