Poem

Published in Poetry Magazine (March 2026 Issue) Where there is no “we” we are sometimes lip to lip sometimes apart […]

Published in Poetry Magazine (March 2026 Issue) The fragment of a dead volcano in my pocket I walk to the

Published in Poetry Magazine (March 2026 Issue) Ninety-eight days since the key last turned in the lock someone has left

Published in Poetry Magazine (June 2022 Issue) You can tell from my uneven hand from the hunched back of my

I wasn’t a helmetI wasn’t a bootI wasn’t a bulletI wasn’t a tankI wasn’t a commanderI wasn’t a privatea minefield,

Around our throats tight like a chain — this headscarf;in our hands loaded like a gun — this headscarf.Each strand