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We salvage ourselves

Recommendations for living. Also twelve questions, one bird, and two poems.

Nov 19 •

September 2023

These hands that have always held you

I begin a new decade overcome with love. Everything keeps on happening. One thousand hugs and gorgeous evenings. Also some new work in the world.

Sep 24 •

Never ate so many stars

A benediction asking Everything, the only god I know, to take care of a friend I never held, and of me, and everyone else. Also a poem that haunts me…

Sep 3 •

July 2023

If you go looking

It has come to my attention I love looking at birds, so now it's everyone's problem. Also a poem that sees something in everything, from the last winter…

Jul 30 •

June 2023

We drove into the sun

Let's say there is a place and you feel at home. Let's say you have a thing or two to learn before you get there. Let's say I wrote a poem. What then?

Jun 18 •

May 2023

In your own time

In four weeks every day will be wildly different. Come on, let me read you a poem.

May 7 •

April 2023

Six weeks left in Chicago. Three times I got on the bus. The bus is a metaphor, except when it isn't. Plus a perfect poem by Charif Shanahan.

Apr 16 •

March 2023

Never stop talking about the sun

Happy Aries season! Here's some long, insane sentences on spring, all the bullshit, unspeakable fury and the struggle to be whole, not just good. Also I…

Mar 23 •

February 2023

I was every inch an animal

An incomplete catalog(ue) of what, exactly, the hell I think I've been doing. Plus I read you a poem about a living thing changing.

Feb 12 •

January 2023

Put your hand here on my heart

Treat yourself to a pomegranate and let me read you two poems—one by me, one by Pablo Neruda. You can tell which is which.

Jan 22 •

Please bring strange things

Here. Have some poems and some prompts. For the practice. Who knows what will happen next.

Jan 1 •

December 2022

All sorts of funny thoughts

I sought comfort in a muppet movie but all I got was lost in an ontological labyrinth. Also here's a very sweet poem performed by a frog.

Dec 4, 2022 •

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