March 2026

Calling all adorers, foreseers, clarifiers, feelers
heretofore falsely sired to the soil, falsely felled 

therein—this is your ladder. Your idea of air
previously eclipsed and pilloried, your sordid opera 

lorded across acres. The fiddler is pleased with your lilac 
praise. It hangs rarefied and prolific among the cedar. 

Arise, dear …

The woman who was saving iguanas opened the cage of the newest arrival and asked if I wanted to hold him. She showed me how to slip my forearm under his scaly belly and bring him to my chest, not unlike soothing a colicky baby, though the iguana showed no distress and breathed evenly against my body, not cold, not warm, as if he…

In this love at midlife, without
photos, without thighs or hipbones,
long moments where nothing happens—oh sorry, just seeing thisa dent in the couch
from too many movie nights, from years
of sitting in the same spotI’m lost, did you send somethingand one less shadow, our kid 
in college and their room empty
down the hallmaybe this isn…