There are few men who will communicate with you in all the languages you know.

I have built my new tongue from old corpses.

As if it were instinct, you held tightly
to a slim bar of sunlight

Turns out it, too, wanted
to know more than what the body can do.

when i called him a callas lover ` of coz i meant careless

What time the young man’s life ended, no one knows.

“jota de manila” and “i recognize the silhouette”

I’ve never seen my therapist
wear his winter coat outside

By some miracle
his bike was still going bone straight.

our resistance our resistance our resistance our resistance

“Ringu (1998)” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)”

their oceanic smell that screams where they come from instead of where they are carried to

I could make it alone
but I don’t want to.

God I loved every one of those pigs we ate.

“a feather falls” and “by the river”

birds are a scimitar waiting

now, don’t be fooled
flying isn’t easy

Are they happy?
Who knows?

maybe that makes me primal. or maybe it makes me whole.

there are no more
orange groves in Jaffa.