on “Being Held” at the dining room table, sitting w/ my nephew & brother. my niece proceeds to lift me off the floor. a wrestler, my arms crease under her […]
Read MoreGenre: Poetry
Greenwich Mean Time & Market Basket, translated from the Persian with an introduction by Kaveh Bassiri
Greenwich Mean Time Leave the seismology of this dream for tomorrow. We have divided the distance we traveled. It’s an immeasurable altitude, off the grid, beyond the vast expanse of […]
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Read MoreExcept More conscious each day of each everyday, I pray I will release them more easily than I released the kind of loving that is only returned […]
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