“the time before I knew things could go so wrong”

“Maybe all anchors are afraid of drowning”

“Spend your days under watch for unseen eyes”

“the water-washed iron of the sky
glittering with pride”

“My grandma had it too; snake-fear”

“we burned oil drums & brought the sun
in closer. we watched the sea spill”

““they all feel it   gather  and chant
not for the taming of their sister””

““I’ve cut
another country out of my map, the ocean
gallops in””

“The nightingale sings and a boy
follows. Voice like fresh bread
rising.”

“Someday, my blood will never be a sunset”

“his feet
suspended by belts he never owned, knotted”

“The Word is loose lust,
it dandelions up above my crown”

“We umber

in the half-dream gloom until morning emerges”

“Do you still believe that
a wound is the only proof you will ever need?”

“prove to my daughters that, though they bleed,
they are world makers”

“at other times I am what the cat
loves to get its paws on”

“it was the height of the mixtape-era, and Ross was the hands-down master”

“in silk and a chemical cocoon
you sleep”

What kind of music would robotic dogs from the future like the least?

“I don’t trust people–singers or otherwise–who don’t admit their failures”