I COULD NEVER NEVER BE LONELY

I COULD NEVER NEVER BE LONELY

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Slovak poem

2026 The thunder’s lightning, no longer ashamed of emotions Some kind of people connected to mountains. They said hey ya the gold is over that mountain, And we never left that place so we believed them. Were we the first people there ever, and what was our name? Were

Mugwort Exterior Grounds

Mugwort Exterior Grounds

2022 [First read aloud at Syd Staiti's Book Release for Seldom Approaches. Syd, Lara Mimosa Montes, and I read that day. At Paradiso reading series hosted by Noah Ross & Claire Grossman] Mugwort Exterior Grounds for the roller skaters that agree with me & the ones that don&

I Could Never Never Be Lonely. A Breakbeat Container*

I Could Never Never Be Lonely. A Breakbeat Container*

The pleasure of listening to a Tim Reaper set when driving down highway 1 in the rain. It takes me to remembering a time in 1997 of coming alive, of being around people, an idea of no future. I want to tell an undertold story. There was something about feeling

Plants in the Classroom

Plants in the Classroom

I taught at what was then called Prison University Project at San Quentin for 5 consecutive years. Much of that time was one-on-one tutoring in study hall, but this piece is about a day in my first full-length literature class, which I co-taught with a brilliant

When I think about traveling, I want it to be more moral (Puerto Rico)

When I think about traveling, I want it to be more moral (Puerto Rico)

(but I am a broke-ass anyway so would I feel that way if I could afford to go more places?) [This was originally written about a trip to Puerto Rico in June 2023. I visited the same friends again in Jan 2025, one who grew up in Aguadilla, and

260525 Transmission of writing at the lake

260525 Transmission of writing at the lake

"But it's just like believing in yourself/ you don't look good if you don't" written last week at Lake Merritt, an ancient location of animal and water gathering together, Oakland CA, unceded Ohlone land, Huichin, before that probably just fire Love this