Nuclear fusion fueled by hydrogen found inside human spit carbon cycles through sweet spruce and pulsating hearts shining stars and suns celestial graveyards rich in nitrogen give birth to fields … Continue reading A Clockwork of Stars
Names
<Redacted> came from your grandfather on your father’s side, who got it from his father, who got it from his father, who got it from an English man who had … Continue reading Names
Puto
Be me. Brown kid called Black or Black called brown, growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Be me. Eating Puto. What did you say? Puto. I said I … Continue reading Puto
Brazo de Mercedes
your arms are soft as sea foam yet strong enough to lift balikbayan boxes onto airplanes, trains, buses your arms are sweeter than sin yet saltier than saline drops on … Continue reading Brazo de Mercedes
Poetic Form: Anaphora
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases Anaphora comes from the Greek word for “carrying up or back” Anaphora is the repetition … Continue reading Poetic Form: Anaphora
Hands
hands thin as spider legs stronger than steel trace draconic runes across my skin igniting vessels of blood as I lay alone in the dark
Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
A Blackout Poem is a type of found poem (to be discussed later) that is created by taking a piece of text, say a newspaper article or a page from … Continue reading Poetic Form: Blackout Poem
Toxic Poem
There once was a dragon who wrote many tales and poems of note she hid them away among toxic decay for a knight with the antidote.
Poetic Form: Acrostic
A letter in each line Can be used to parsh out Reasonable words and phrases Only if the letters used Start at the beginning Thus forming a vertical Informal riddle … Continue reading Poetic Form: Acrostic
Why I Died Single
It was a pie. Coconut cream pie to be exact. There I was, munching on another slice of sin and attempting to write another sonnet (Sonnet Attempt Number 456, when … Continue reading Why I Died Single
The Literary Dragon 