From May, 2024

05.23.2024

lower part of newspaper page; “monarch butterflies drop 59% this year. world wildlife blame climate conditions and agricultural practices, especially use of pesticides in united states killing off the monarch’s main food source, milkweed” —156 words total. below this; “violence against women increasing in middle east”— 43 words total. african milkweed california milkweed cedar hill milkweed common milkweed blunt-leaved milkweed’ butterfly weed desert milkweed four-leaved milkweed green milkweed heart-leaf milkweed horsetail milkweed indian paintbrush leafless milkweed longleaf milkweed mead’s milkweed mojave milkweed narrow leaf milkweed pallid milkweed pineland milkweed pine needle milkweed pleurisy milkweed poke milkweed red milkweed rush milkweed…

05.12.2024

dreamers:  you be a girl with a pile of white  bones and teeth. a shape resembling  antlers entangled in there too  your heap is coming undone  crumbling as skeletons in the desert  you be a girl having conversations  with your bone-heap, asking childish questions  like; “why are we alone” or “does a whale have ribs?”  cause you keep dreaming you have this  whale-rib wand  you tell the heap  you are afraid the lump in your chest  is the tip of a deeper, diving issue  that perhaps all your inner oceans are  contaminated  you tell the heap  you dream of the…

05.03.2024

the beach the beach is lovely in early morningsfew people, so the birds are active heavy container ships glides by out in the strait