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We shimmy // their extended limbs into drawstring liners, as if our / swaddling could coax them from their permanent reaching. [more] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1509932637168-YBNC4DXCGO8D9DV1TU22/New+York+Times+Magazine.jpg Selected Works - "Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing" (The New York Times Sunday Magazine) "on your hip in young, flirtatious refusal. One wrist steels / with a watch so big, it’s halfway to falling, and your arms are // plain and hairless enough to turn into a statue’s missing / limbs. Gallery mother, swing of my heart", [ read more ] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1509932646075-5K9C274Y5QYAHRVV31CC/Academy+of+American+Poets.jpg Selected Works - Nine Poems (poets.org, Academy of American Poets) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1666379539939-3UOH1SZMKKRG5BK356Y0/American%2BPoetry%2BReview_2017_cover.jpg Selected Works - "13 Ways of Knowing Her" (American Poetry Review) "7. Susan Wood asks if grief were a bird, and my microwave dings. Seven men fall to their knees, past the wall, across the border. My mouth clot with iron." [ read more ] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1507522873169-A0Y3T1ECRRB5NI80MHSM/American+Poetry+Review_2013_cover.jpg Selected Works - "For Want of Water" (American Poetry Review) American Poetry Review an ant will drown himself, his body submerging / into ease, his mandibles, head, antennae, baptized. How lovely / to lose your senses to the cup of your want. A boy [more]   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1666380076505-GKSWCKVBLPLV1EPM4YST/Screen+Shot+2022-10-21+at+1.20.38+PM.png Selected Works - "If I Die in Juárez" (American Life in Poetry) …my fingers across the bridge, pressing chord into chord, that delicate protest—: my tongue rowing the frets, and our throats high from the silences of keeping. [ read more ] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1503016990429-JZZRYU1ED4JFFRSO8DGW/The+Normal+School_Journal+Cover.jpg Selected Works - Two Poems (The Normal School) The Normal School The day I left my house / for another home, the sky / was pink. I could hear [more] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1503072078496-B58YENL9JFEWPVXT2XHV/Callaloo.jpg Selected Works - "Blood, Sister" (Callaloo) Excerpted in Callaloo. Originally appeared in American Poetry Review. 2. This is the memory I am making up of you, little sister / From your photograph which uncurls like a plucked flower / On my refrigerator door, your face like an apostrophe, such an open / And tightened mark all at once—hesitating // To unwind, just on the brink   [more] [whole poem] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1503071377422-GSC8EAN1Z4CO00LGG8PA/El+Paso+Airport.jpg Selected Works - "The River / El Río: Both Sides / No Sides" (Installation at the El Paso International Airport) El Paso International Airport. Intertwining with Bobby Byrd's own poem. Begin from water, the great stillness of desert night and cooling air, our river violet and inky. La luz de la luna en las colinas. And a word rustles across the page, between mouths, at the edge of state and country. El Paso, sólo el Río Bravo tiembla entre tú y el rostro brillante de Juárez—and when the plane descends, both cities glisten in the window, a single ocean of light. Begin now, too, in ascent of flight—the altitude of shared breath, and how, below clouds, our land breaks through: like puddles of star. [more] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59821c8417bffc3df40f819b/1729716138897-445TRTV2GDVENIHNNUCU/How%252Ba%252BPoem%252BHappens.jpg Selected Works - "Thai Massage" (How a Poem Happens)