TEN DAYS OF RITUALS

who often had time
              in between mantras
                          to pipe opium or chew a paan

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Felina

put your
bird-soul
in my teeth.

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God Moves In Neurodivergent Ways

But in the process, constantly,
Of being made in front of me.
All her half-done work, displayed
In interactive art arrays.

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The Whole World is Made of Boulders

I thought I could be an action
hero when I was a kid and was certain I was born to
scale mountains and leap from place
to place like a grasshopper who hates my hands

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Mythmakers

The first mythmakers were unafraid
of appleseeds and so they ate

the invisible starbursts
at the center of each core

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Plaça Reial

A seedy ambiance adds spice to its charm,
but now the word is Barcelona Posa’t Guapa
and the facades are freshly restored.

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career fair pessimist

my lips can show love
but it’s all pancreatic amylase in the near end, just
like a bunch of sweet, sweet               suckers.

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Incongruity

I am a lightless house with door ajar
and you a ghost with irises aglow.
I see you. Though I don’t know who you are
you peel apart my self-effacing scar.

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