In a Dream I Speak Perfect Mandarin
vague shape of a person, perhaps made up
of broken seashells : the sound of fractured edges toned
Domestic Realism
my mother married a willow tree on a hilltop, sat under its boughs through four decades of rain in a day
Corsage
Sideways glances at others who are doing it better: crisp black ties, polish on their shoes, the right moves.
anti-ode to the heart
cocoons, tent worms eating the world
just to be reborn, inseparable from the smoke