Watch the Film You Paid to See

Poem Of The Day / February 27, 2025

In my bedroom my weight is three times more
than what I'd weigh on Jupiter.
If your kitchen was on Mercury I'd be heavier by half
of you while sitting at your table.
On Uranus, a quarter of my ...Read More

Fanny Linguistics: Nickole

Poem Of The Day / February 26, 2025

What people don't know about my name
is that my grandmother gave me that "k"
-my very own unexpected
consonant-
those two strong arms and two strong legs,
that broom-handle spine-
that ...Read More

Time

Poem Of The Day / February 25, 2025

the bell of ten thousand names.
A clepsydra with veins of blood.
A caravel on a tide of bloodletting
is also our necessary clock, so
the he who is I at the
time lets out my elephantine toll. <...Read More

A Person Protests To Fate

Poem Of The Day / February 24, 2025

A person protests to fate:
"The things you have caused
me most to want
are those that furthest elude me."

Fate nods.
Fate is sympathetic.

To tie the shoes, button a shirt, ...Read More

Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light

Poem Of The Day / February 23, 2025

I wish I were like Johnny Cash
& thought my heart was mine.
I've worn a black suit
my entire life. It suits the war
my eyes ignite.

My sins sit on my lap,
bald, blind, desperate <...Read More