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Social Commentaryexpand_moreI’ll leave a trail of crumbs as I descend into god knows where.
How many gods do you believe in? How many good men?
Logic is such an elegant weapon; and religion, such an easy target.
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
It was enough to make the most hardened veteran drop his guard.
I broke up fights, bandaged cuts, fielded calls from parents, and sat with the sad or depressed.
It could be our baby. Her eyebrow, its perfect arc, the pale blue vein.
The fog’s sheen is a mirror: my mother sees the terrain of the future—
You can tell by the walls whoever lives here doesn’t want to be seen.
The fish’s eye is mangled, tugged inward; blood leaks from its gills.
The men here don’t know where to place me, call me exotic grail.
For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
If it were fiction, calling the place Newtown would be too much.
If angels were made of music, surely they would vanish.
Rise the Euphrates, my first novel, grew out of a feverish dream.
Brassy bullets fell against the floral comforter like little candies.
I was always being left behind in the mud, a bandage around my eyes.
Throwing the El Camino into drive, he roared down the mountain road.
Like a bird with a broken wing I will smudge the line of the hopscotch.
You have to be three times better than the white kids, at everything.
I saw myself, and for the first time, I didn’t look away.
The sex in these fantasies was always a product of love.
I read cookbooks the way I do poetry, with a willingness to be transported.
We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.
Her appearances are fleeting, a gust of air, a murmur in the night.
He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.
In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.
Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.
On this small island, everyone knows who comes, especially who goes.
You might say I acted on instinct. All I wanted was to stop the screaming.
