Hawk free of jess,
the diver springs
toward fire no son can bear,

Like a seal 
in broken sleep, 
aware of how

In hill fire Fall
come home from sea,
I climb the shoal

I’m drunk. My head holds up 
the soft vibrations of the room. 
Dusk. My daughter jogs her answer 

The Eternal
is like the ax
the assassin slams

A Chinese emperor, in order to preserve
his power, decided that he would never
grant clemency to anyone. His reign

The disturbed man chopped up the body
of the older woman for days and threw it
into garbage cans at various locations

In my case, there was no drama. The lady doctor
was very nice. I made my way quickly to the other side
of being not pregnant again. Of being without child.

They are like men because they are isolated
yet stand in the rain, surrounded by mounds
of dirt and asphalt to catch spillover—

Thousands upon thousands of grains of sand,
Rivers that know no rest, the sparkling white
Snowflake more delicate than a shadow, light