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Not Blind
No it isn’t. But lovetook one of my eyes for itself, lovehad vision before birth, diddiscuss with me the accuracyof what transpires in lenses. And then it went blind—slowlysoaked us up from behind a veil,and we couldn’t see it. A deaf air said to methat borders ...

Fresh Hell
June 18, 2021
The Supreme Court Says YAASS, Honey, to Homophobia   It’s been a banner week for the nation’s highest court. On Thursday, three opinions issued forth from that marble sarcophagus of justice that, among other things, upheld corporate America’s god-given right to never be ...

Hand of War
We hold war’s hand,not so that it walks among us,but it is death,a bit tardy, we cajole it. We hold war’s hand,convinced that this is the last timeit waves catastrophe to us,since the road is a futile wall, and the country is searchingfor a photographof collective ...

Specific Details
Drowning in the time allotted for truce,we manufacture spare heartsin case we lose the hearts each of us has.We’re uncertain of life’s worthon the slipping edge,yet it seems hope can’t be shelled all at once.The minute details of war,poison gas we can’t thwartfrom ...

Fresh Hell
June 11, 2021
Goodbye to All That For far too long, millennials, when not busy eviscerating the raisin and canned tuna industries, have been living like “bourgeois royalty” courtesy of benevolent investors who have, for years, subsidized the immiseration of millions of workers (millennial ...

How I Kill Soldiers
Fady Joudah, the translator of the following poem, discusses it in an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read it here. Colonial soldiers,what have they been doingto my poetry all these yearswhen I could have easily killed themin my poemsas they’ve killed my ...