Teens

Forgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank…

Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…

If we’re put here long enough, someone’s bound to learn something. The sweep of the second hand erases…

It is morning. Remember that.
It is morning and the house is quiet,
so quiet that I can, for the moment…

The end of summer
and our jalapeño plant

is wilting, its stem brittle
as the heat peels

away from us,
though…

And still one looks to the tree to paraphrase the sky, arbiter of wind and sun. The hills with their…

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

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

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

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

December. In Odesa,
power stations, shelled.
Your father’s friend
shivers in his apartment
crammed with …

I walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…

No
I don’t dance horses
I am not a mariachi
I am not a baile folklorico dancer
I am not the half-time show…

we are taught the beauty of the rose
the serenity of the soft and the still
the austerity of silver stars…

There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…

I am a feminist who loves my sport
and the machismo in charrería often gets to me

To be clear
I am not …

Brother charro
do you realize
that it is because of escaramuza
that you have an audience?

Our performances…