Drip Irrigation
The drought-dry plants are patient with their death. They don’t complain.They are connected to the earth. But I am frantic for a way to use my tears ...
Chatbot
If you build a machine to talk to me, then I will talk to the machine and take my comfort like a monkey nursing from a wire mother. Prisoners in solitary cry...
Energy Farms
i. Moths can’t resist the light of solar panels on the desert.Hungry little birds chase after them,their larger predators in hot pursuit. The heat ignites ...
O Land, Hang Down Your Tousled Head
O land, hang down your tousled head and cry. The wind is changing, rumpling your trees, a careless gesture of goodbye. The rain is gone. The god we worship ...
Refugee
She left the past with just a little suitcase in her hand— a seed— out of the garden that ejected her. She planted it and saw it grow into a tree and then a...
To the College Student Charged in Arson at Texas Synagogue
We see you on surveillance tape— a blurry masked-up guy, black tee shirt, cargo pants,a jug of fuel in one hand, a roll of toilet paper in the other—then...
Firehawks
Imagine Noah’s dovewith one green leafto prove the world survived. Imagine it again,this time the leaf on fire. Now think of whistling kitesand brown Austra...
Glass Frog
My home is in cloud forests, on a sky island where you’ll never find me, tiny, green to the bone. If you discover me, beware: I wear a dagger. I will neve...
Acquiescence
You thought you could create reality by wanting it. You beat your version into me. I wanted to believe what even you knew was a lie. My sister drank it in, ...
American Crows
The crows are arguing about the price of nests. They strut around the streets as if they owned the place. The mourning dove resigned himself and flew a...