Odysseus Grins at Fate and the Gods
For all my guile, there have been times when my own wit / has thrown me into far worse danger. / Polyphemus laughs, despite his blindness, / to think what ill I wrought upon myself.
Super Mario; Or, Everything I Needed to Learn About Relationships
Photograph by June Intharoek All relationships can be linked to Super Mario (who is you — implicitly an immigrant, only ever seen as a stereotype to those of the “kingdom,” and all your friends are toads and your clothes are never in style but styled old) Mushrooms,...
Electrocologies
and our flesh buzzes with sentience / as seething intelligence infiltrates / the musculature and mind
The Satyr’s Acolyte
The serpentine deities, Nehushtan and Ophidia, once conjoined twins, they devoured Godda’s forbidden windfalls and had their embrace cleaved asunder.
Vestiges of you
She leaps along the shoreline / Her feet playing life and death / Water droplets burning her flesh // Beyond the shattered concrete / The red fading, the bridge sinking / Your cities rise, blue jagged into the sky
Mud Dauber Wasp Nest
Some Yung Dynasty’s expert woodcarver captured this monk’s hot blaze of mystery… It knew well its place in time and space; no need to plan for how to find a grace.
