9th and 10th grade

A ball of  yarn is attempting to unravel my wits.
It rolls over vistas that trample our view of each …

Firemen cut the car open like a cake but when
they reached through the windshield to pull me out
they …

In the sunless hour before day I hear the man I want
to love just how I’d want him. He’ll never let a…

For the sake of argument, let’s say
the day my father outlawed all contact
between backhand and face, …

The money of  the mind is attention, maybe.
Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
but we…

I’m not the first man to lose his father
slowly, not the first to wonder
when I walk in the room if the…

constellations of dimwitted substrate
twinkle like formless apparitions.
i keep walking forward
so your…

I was a forty-one-year-old rabbit
that year, which was said to be unlucky
for the rabbits to go face-to…

The dentist is now the same
age as me, which is troubling,
mostly because of what I
have and have not done…

The redolence of rose and new road.
The attar of grass, recently cut.
The fish-whiff of anchovy.
The spinning…

You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…

相离徒有相逢梦。门外马蹄尘已动。
怨歌留待醉时听，远⽬不堪空际送。

今宵风⽉知谁共。声咽琵琶槽上凤。
⼈⽣⽆物⽐多情，江⽔不深⼭不重。

to the tune “mu lan hua: magnolia”
 After tonight, what’s left of you is you

moving into my dream. Outside…

甚矣吾衰矣。
怅平⽣、交游零落，只今余⼏！
⽩发空垂三千丈，⼀笑⼈间万事。
问何物、能令公喜？
我见青⼭多妩媚，料青⼭见我应如是。
情与貌，略相似。

⼀尊搔⾸东窗⾥。
想渊明、《停云》诗就，此时风味。
江左沉酣求名者…

to the tune “he xin lang: toasting the bridegroom”Now that I am old and those who crossed the mountains…

Late in May as the light lengthens
toward summer the young goldfinches
flutter down through the day for…

When the shoe strings break
On both your shoes
And you're in a hurry—
That's the blues.   When you go…