MEtonym
Transitivity
...I’m fine I’m fine
I’m fine and then
not really a switch but more
like a quick slide into
the prickling knowledge
I will die...
WASHINGTON SQUARE
An Iranian Rat Explains Blast Off
...Fear is the brain moving up
and the body moving down
and a shadow in the middle...
Gargoyle Magazine
Swimming the Forth of Firth
...I am any given Melville character
in any given Melville novel...
Guernica
An Iranian Rat Prepares for Space Flight
I have no name unless I make
it back alive in which case
my name will be Kavoshgar...
The Tusculum Review
Letter Sent While Drunk
The fossil you will be rises
to the edge of my lust for you..
PANK
Two Poems
...I see now these ghosts all around us
They’re making a sewing motion with their hands
I feel the slick weight of my heart’s absence...
Diagram
On Watching my Friend Chase her Son across the Yard by the Pool
...But I have different
simple pleasures—
being 31 and childless
and having seven beers
and half a joint
and one nap
on a Tuesday...
Gritty Silk
The Rules
...To look is to act especially
if the look is really a stare...
The Sonora Review
...You are small and wooden.
Pretend you are a tree...
