The Last Time I Saw Tel Aviv
The young men and women looked lean and strong
riding together on e-scooters.
Standing close on e-scooters, like spooning lovers, weaving
through traffic. No need to hunt for parking … Read more
Poems
Writing About War
Everyone is Writing About War
About the arbitrariness of it—
the innocents killed or displaced
by angry men,
and make no mistake, these are men,
even the men who … Read more
During the end of days
there will be horses herds
and herds of horses
turquoise streaks
flickering across the valley
like ghost riders
their fog breath
shattering … Read more
Accounting
No need to count the dead in Gaza,
their dead are just a number,
a vague number,
if that.
In Ukraine, we know the numbers,
precise, not vague,
in … Read more
Red Raining Over Israel
Violence ringing out like a stray bullet
Killing everything it touches dead
As babies are beheaded in front
of their beaten and whimpering parents
And elderly people are kidnapped
It … Read more
The Smallest Victim
Hipochryfa’s hankie
Trampled in the mud.
But she can’t move on
Through the ever-flowing present
Spewed into a full-stop
By the roaring flood.
And they all told her,
Stop … Read more
State of a Union
An Abecedarian in Support of Labor
almost instantaneously, anchors across the nation
broadcast updates as Biden, in a UAW baseball
cap, walks the picket line to
demonstrate solidarity with labor … Read more
Arboricide Song
A man with an axe called to his accomplices
from beneath the flow of night’s dark tap;
a bird screamed, a lyrebird. It flew into a tree,
up to where … Read more
Saunasphere
It’s so hot, your brain sounds the alarm—
orders your body to pump water
from interior reserves,
hydrants in the blood, muscles, kidneys,
and brain itself—through dilated vessels
to the … Read more
Vibrant face of depression
Another flick, a spark
once more awakened the past
Illustrating memories
are alive and always last
I recall your visage with
its veins, … Read more
Life Is Like Moon
For Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran
Life is Jina
Jina is Mahsa —
the full circle of light
witness to struggle
Say her name—
The … Read more