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Some people see the man but not the light, the field but not the varnish.

West Oakland was characterized by unemployment, poverty, and blight.

Spanish men. They whispered and whistled. It made her jumpy.

Say what you will, a human being has the right to their own body.

In the backyard I submerge myself in a bathtub of soil, soak with the hose.

I waited and waited, rethinking first sentences in my sleep.

Fatwas condoned our arrest for the rouged contours of our lips.

Euclid stands in front of his lover’s door, open to the last hours of light.

His mother wasn’t there to meet him at his stop. She never was.

The moon it is red, and the stars are fled but all the sky is a-burning.

The cat was looking at me with an intelligent expression. It knew.

I could go in for some pie why the hell not, there’s so little time.

Sixty-year-old veins look like giant roots breaking through earth’s skin.

She looks down the street for Scott’s truck. He’s late but so is she.

I’m recalling his socks, the inked initials, the splashes of blood.

“Who is it?” Irina asked at the door. “Open up,” a voice commanded.

Arrows shot by the halt at the lame,
 Opinions come and go just the same.


Men are so delicate, must be given many portals. I try to be game.

I wanted my love to be everywhere, then love began to bite through me.

The poem I can’t yet write saves itself for when it can’t be avoided.

My lust works like the tides pulling in reverse, controlled by a simple ballast.

For the president’s arrival they shot two dogs making love on the tarmac.

Arriving on earth’s paradise, wearing only light for their bodies.

David Lee

She regarded the world calmly without the filter of her suffering.

Beyond her ampleness, he stands a small man vanquished.

“Leaving for war, Hayes wept. He didn’t just cry; he wept...”

But too much rain can translate anything to unspeakable.

With a hammer well aimed, try to destroy the whole with a single blow.