Creator’s Obligation
Intelligence
Scorned Loves and Beautiful Illusions
Perfect Window
The Slowest Part of our Existence is Living It
Existence is Resistance
(Though this concept has been stated before, choosing to live, living the life you choose, and choosing to unforgivingly be yourself is resistance. So keep existing. Your presence will change the world. The dead have no use to us.)
Persian has no Pronouns
We do not address you
by a word that means nothing
Her name is more powerful
than their pronouns
We do not hide behind I
when expressing me
Do not take it offensively
They don’t understand this
His tryst
When it is he and she but not we
There is no power in you
They, us and we
are arbitrary
The man is she
and the woman is he
but we are it
Do not forfeit
to this
unnecessary metaphor
(Published in “Seven Countries Poetry Anthology” by Arroyo Seco Press 2017. Originally published on 06/17/2016)
Creative Creator
Where does your creative space go?
Mine seems to disappear sometimes.
Not sure where.
Sometimes she’s
gone for a long time
And then
why hello there
Whatever You Do, Don’t Think:Squiggly
Glass Eye
Grayscale snapshots
out of focus
little capsules
vials of silver happiness
vivid living imagery
wondrous imitation
if only to know the world
and wander in it.
