The Rape of Ukraine

In France they say if the guy penetratesBut does not ejaculate then he did not rape meWhich is exactly like RussiaPenetrating into Ukraine, penetrating intoGeorgia and how do you know if Moscow ejaculates? And the curious sympathy one feelsWhen feeling with the handThe naked meat of the bodyPoise on the hips, reclining,Arm-curving and tightening. And

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Burst

It approaches from the sea, too small For thunder and lightning But ominous as a closed fist And what it will bring… I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, I bear light shade for the leaves in their noonday dreams. Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise

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Minority

If  you press your ear To my blood’s topography, you’ll hear My language dying the same way My father did: Alone. I am programmed to this language, And can only voice my rejection of it In the same language. This is the power of diaspora, The difficulty in finding alternative. The blood of language moves,

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Tohu Bohu

Chaos is the new calm I look outside and see trees having sex Chaos in a green light – Tohu Bohu I’m sorry I’m here and I’m sorry I’m not here Feeding on the detritus of white goods, laminate floors, and fake recycling Days like zombies dawdling toward a cliff edge But we will emerge

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Shout!

Grandmaster Flash’s thunderclap says he’s not the grand jury in the streets, So who will go out there & speak laws of motion & relativity in the streets? Put your voice where your memory is. Don’t hush, Remember well what your life was like: cloudiness, and slick mud after a drizzle. Go where those others

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Incantations for the Mind

Lemon balm is for forgiveness. Pull up from the root, steep in boiling water. But restrict yourself and Eat the whites of things: Tender bamboo shoots, The veins of the young iris, The clouded eye of a fish. Pepper seeds are for courage. Sprinkle them on your tongue. Sprinkle in the doorway and along The

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The Wrong Flower

Somewhere in Okinawa there are stairs, are concrete stairs that lead one near straight from top to bottom of a cliff face and they end in a black-sand beach. Despite its name, no orchids grow there. Orchid comes from the Greek word meaning testicle and Greek women believed eating orchids made their unborn babies boys.

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حرق الخشب

خرجت إلى خشب البندق ، لأن النار كانت في رأسي ، قد أموت في الدقائق العشر القادمة وأنا مستعد لذلك ، أنا ذاهب لشراء سكين مع شفرة طويلة عشر بوصات.

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Looking Up

You sit and gnaw your nails And listen to the silence on the ceiling. Shadows of loitering silver clouds, becalmed in blue, Hither-hence, my guest, Blood and bone befriend, where you abide. Draw a deep breath; stop thinking; count fifteen, And you’re as right as rain… The garden waits for something that delays. There must

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Half the Chance

I am a reaper whose muscles set at sun-down. But I am too chilled, and I hunger. But something in me isn’t ready To destroy what I’ve carefully cultivated. When I gobble you up I lay the little bones ever so gently round my plate. You woke in the groin of night to feel a

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