Poetry

When I left the southern coast, I bid farewell to hummingbird, never thought I'd see a calliope, rufous, or ruby-throated again ...

On Sundays when football isn't on our family naps through high noon westerns after church.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, and the hum and the buzz and the blue flicker of the fluorescent tubes that twitch and wink for decades like highway stripes ...

O Oriens: Light that breaks, that cracks the void; match for God to phosphoresce with gust of words.

The shoot will come up from the dry ground ...

She buys me for my birth canal but beats me for the birth.

Green bills shimmy onto the stage floor from hands who gave them up to a box named "charity"

Our son will be my prophesy, my sign, my wonder.

My grandfather at 90 chews my mom's roast chicken and banana bread, his dentures slipping loose.