Math Sestina

I can enumerate my body /
and it’s comforting, almost.



Of Discord

All to the core you have me bitten, as if I’m the one to suffer from dysentery or rabies.


Q&A with Ariana Benson, author of Black Pastoral

"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."




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A small, window-less jail cell with a single cot and a short stool beside it.

The Court Trip

This is what I deserve, I thought the whole ride from court to county.


Plot of two orbits labeled "Mercury and Jupiter" on the top with a graph from -6 to 6 for both the x and y axes. There are two elliptical orbits around the origin, one which is quite small and one which extends almost to the whole size of the plot.

“Frog and Toad are Friends” and “N-Body Setup”

dearest toad,
when the pelicans launched into orbit, I looked at you sideways, circling and circling, the motion of the birds described by some differential equation.
your friend,
frog


Home

This place is a shit show.


A plate of meatballs sit on a white lace tablecloth with a ray of sun hitting them.

Foreigner

I had to get used to this, the hunger, or it would eat me from inside out.


Photo of a cluster of wild pink flowers in a greenish-gray field. A faded orange/pink strip that looks like a photo filter runs vertically through the photo, left of center.

older than woven

i choke up flags and furniture
stretch them out in the sun