5 Poems

AFTER EMILY WILCOX’S BEAST OF BURDEN It is very cold,                there are strange stars near Arcturus, Voices are crying an unknown name in the sky                         -Archibald MacLeish On the appointed day the north skyCondemned us to a shared sun. We were

2 Poems (Anxious Diva)

ANXIOUS DIVA My body: the most public yetof my many humiliations.Shame manifest as flabthat I’m convincing myself I shouldlove, I should touch, as though it is money, my lovelylottery lumps. Now accepting plastic:Discover, American Express corporate.Now enduring: street harassment, honey,lemon,