in hopes that America can stop oppressing its citizens

“curled together
like pages of a book fallen into the bath—they can’t read us”

“Me, a rusted hammer. Me, a sweet & lovely
disaster. How much beautiful must I kill?”

“Spiritualized would pull Ladies and Gentlemen out of retirement”

“Exploding Lightning
Dragon Penis Rainbow or something”

“this was stripped down rock and roll, lean and ready for new mobility”

“Because I never said yes
and I never said no-
I simply stayed suspended in that sound”

“If anything, life saves the song – over and over again”

“The back of a truck one woman starts Black sky too blurred for stars”

“perfect brew of Oh My Goodness!”

“Waking woozily somewhere wholly foreign”

“receiving death threats from other gun owners”

“grass hills, sun-filled squinty eyes, general lethargy and ease”

“Eyes, stuck in perma-popped-bubblegum marvel”

“I had visions of long algae strands licking my ankles and sucking me down”

“that fragile sense of universe that makes reading the poems feel like an event”

“A poem could be written about a new mass shooting every week”

“put a cicada in your ear, and you could die from it”

“roots, the sticky south, swampy rock and roll!”

“In Japan, hairline fractures appear
on the wings of Boeing Dreamliners”