Naomi Buck Palagi

everything I write, I write it for you. pineapples, toreadors, wood grain–this is for you. siestas in a hammock of love–for you. parachutes dripping through the sky, like rain. powerful men in cadillacs, like rain. hood ornaments. this is for

TARGETTING: CHORALE Voice 1 Voice 2 stem cells pertinent impermanent twenty dollars would buy your rent and carry you to infantaland, the after road, as poll takers. princely? Yes, and caveated too, as are all afternoons. we wandered in backlog

when winter comesso hard. shudderingwith aftershocks wellinto spring and evenaugust, we feel what happened then.the rain slapping hardon a tin roof frightening usto the window, watchingfor hail or other revolution. Naomi Buck Palagi has work published in journals such as

i went to the cupboard and the cupboard was bare, nothing there. i ran from the rat race and the clock struck one. darth and ella vader like to go up and down up and down. they’re really going places,

Naomi Buck Palagi has been interested in “shaping crafts” such as woodworking, sewing, writing and singing since her childhood in rural Kentucky. She became focused on poetry as an amazingly flexible vehicle for thought and communication, and has work published in