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A lone semi-truck travels down a mountainside highway.

Embody

in Fall Series 2021 Poetry on October 14, 2021 June 20, 2022

New York Times, October 24, 2019 LONDON —The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck trailer in southeastern England . . . . We don’t know much. The authorities said they were Chinese. Later, …

Close up of a cow staring straight ahead through the bars of its enclosure.

Corn

Corn chips, on the cob, in a can, the mash-bill of his bourbon he was expecting, even the feed of cows turned steak, hamburger he ate no second thought, but then his soda, ketchup (all…

A series of three copies of the same 1917 icebox with door ajar, all shaded red. From left to right, each successive icebox is larger than the last.

An All or Nothing Machine

in Fall Series 2021 Poetry on September 30, 2021 June 20, 2022

People don’t grow up the way they used to. By which I mean— sometimes I store trash in the freezer to make it to garbage day. I harness the cold to disinfect my jeans. My…

hand drawn butcher knife on white background

Jiaozi

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on July 2, 2021 June 11, 2021

We never bought a food processor so I grind pork with a knife, criss cross muscle fibers, get as close as I can to the cutting board, knuckles battering bamboo. Ba prefers the rubber resistance…

Ancient handprints made on rock; mirrored, distorted, and tinted green.

Wenzhou

in Poetry Transit/Transition/Translation on July 1, 2021 June 11, 2021

We both lived on the fourteenth floor, across from one another, Building C. After a number of test runs (from what the video blindly reports) she ascends fourteen more, chair in hand. Peeling back the…