HOUR 12 WHEN WE VISITED LOURDES   We visited Lourdes (France), like all devout Catholics, to ask for favors.   Our girls were two and one. The younger one had a milk allergy, and drank protein milk, which resulted in poop of the foulest odor….

She was nothing remarkable at least, that’s what I kept telling myself truth is: she was everything I wanted everything I needed everything I deserve Amazingly, I had her she was in my grasp I held tight perhaps too tight I should have let her…

Green wall with a diamond shape Looking at my phone Green Hooded sweater Sitting all alone. I am not a clone I am just an image We are not apart It is just a scrimmage. 10 more poems to finish I am filled with venoms…

I pray differently now No bells, whistles, thou’s or therefore’s I pray mostly like a fool Just foolish enough to trust silence Will laugh at my arrogance And bandage my wounds I pray like a man who knows endings And who trusts next steps I…

A world without verbs [] a world where I [] not [] able to [] what I [] and [] what I [] and it [] a world of confusion, misunderstanding, and possibly, division. Language [] togetherness, but only among those who [] it. So…

write a poem that feels like a dream  flashing blue lights don’t make my pulse pick up or my shoulders tighten  or the possibility of my life  flicker in and out    flashing blue lights are just that:  alternating hues of brightness a color between…

Redaction   The choice to censor myself Is not one that I want to make, Redaction is not for the likes Of poets like me.   I perfer to spill my verse More honestly… Without the markers Cross to hide the dream I want to…

HOUR 11 NATASHA When I was expecting my first child, I worried through the nine months. I imagined every bad scenario After her birth, I counted her fingers and toes, and listened to her breathing during the night.   Three months later, I was pregnant…

Moon at my back porch God’s eye and holy stoppage Humid August breeze

my room in the first apartment  that i’ve paid rent for doesn’t have a closet it took months of brainstorming & experimentation  to find some system for clothing storage i guess it helps  to have no room for hiding no space for baggage  or maybe…