Poems from this book have appeared in the following excellent literary journals:

Qarrtsiluni

Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art

Connotation Press: An Online Artifact

Interim

Literal

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Vertical Fish/ graffiti

traced with a finger on the salty surface of a wall

with a bladder of dry blood it floats in rock its skeleton outside it

fish fish hook round hole

its feather-duster mouth stitched with blue wires

through skin water sucks in through skin water is expelled

lidless nameless fossil adrift hot and ocher

x-ray of the fish at its peak its radiant spume

mineralized when caves were still filled with tranquil water

the thorn hidden in the corners of phosphorescent

laugh caught in the mist-wrapped rock

a dense green mist in each pocket of flesh or primal water

forms a nest of saliva on the facing wall

lytic fish hatchetfish    awl fish fish knifing through water

volcanic glass fish in the dawn of animality

dark magnetism in the cranial hollow extinct fish before language

cerulean naked fixed spherical spindle-shaped cylindrical red  

discerning stormwater from wastewater

dorsal fins atrophied in the genetic play of crossbreeding fish

column and hole

it hears through the plaster to the interior wall

between stones chock-full with painted animals that nothing illuminates

fish emerging from fish through the unlocked skeleton

senseless to freshly putrefying tail-stems on the ground

hanging fish

unimaginably distorted returned to the bitter water under the tongue

the  salt-tortured liquid in abysses that illumine

fish fish hook round hole

the moon’s thorn piercing its throat

its internal skeleton dissolving in the quicksilver of a mirror

a green sun phosphorescing under black water

fossa of the thirsting fish imagined by another fish in its desert

rows of iridescent thorns below the stars

below the mud of time fish eating fish the surest verity

violet scales throughout all the earth’s layers

salt like ground glass red-glowing from dead scales

the female whose caudal fin stiffens as she spawns the first egg

fingernail fish the skylight opened

through skin water sucks in through skin water expelled

scream of a fish drooling mortified in its leafy bed

in silence it sings in silence like a bouquet of salt in the mind