This household is a bowl of sugar on the table
where I’m upside-down in a shiny spoon.
Our house is a ceramic jar of honey from alfalfa or clover or wildflower
and the spoon is not a spoon is a wooden stick with flat circles.
We don’t have this Lazy Susan I spin away with.
Jill’s first romantic dinner at Dave’s
was box macaroni & cheese, sliced hot dogs.
Gigi ate leftover Rice-A-Roni last night dreaming her stomach
ache until this morning.
She’s been shitting liquid bombs and hopes to blow it all out
before today’s road trip back up north.
About the AuthorCurrently an Assistant Professor of Language & Literature at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Graduate of Humboldt State University and the New College of California's Poetics Program. Poems have appeared in Blackbox, Cherry Bleeds, Country Activist, debt, Earth First! Radical Environmental Journal, Humboldt – Central American Solidarity Newsletter, Log, Minotaur, mirage[periodical], Paisley Moon, Prosodia, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Steelhead Special, Tight, and Toyon.
