If you play, you wish to be innocent. If you do not, you submit to empires.

We are willing to be buried.

the cows eat the remmants of dew/
the cows eat 乾 and 坤

“Anetra Aubade” and “Hardly Creatures”

I had loved, fathered, and given up 
on my dreams in this otherness

She makes the most beautiful cakes with her hands, my mother. They’re never too sweet.

For all the Palestinians on hunger strikes in Israeli prisons

Today, the sky greets me awake.

i watch you watch the news, that a body/ prepared for burial is measured at the elbows, and/ worry.

Excerpts from We Call to the Eye & the Night

one leftover lychee from last night’s mimosaing, mimosaed decadence

“Color” and “To a Friend I Miss”

You lived in this body and
ripped the wallpaper out.

“Singing into Soil” and “Chaplin”

I, like you, came to Earth
unexpectedly.

When I look, the ocean roars.

If men are the first to leave, why do families still beg their gods to have sons?

By morning, everything fizzled.

“I was invited to a dinner” and “Sagrada Família”

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