I’m happy to announce that my third e-chapbook, tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020), can now be purchased here. This collection of haiga was made in collaboration with the poet, Peter Jastermsky, and features 20 pieces of my art.

contagion

your truth

becomes our lie

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like any other Tuesday mass shooting

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your rape a number nothing is holy

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trending

during the pandemic

#ThingsYouSayWhenYouCum

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whitewashed the earth continues to bleed

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the news behind the news our last shards of dignity

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witch trial

no one ever

believes a prophet

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kids in cages they say hell doesn’t exist

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history repeating what bullets never solved

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clinging to faith night still unfolds

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hope in darkness a hymn I used to know

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doomsday

you still act

surprised

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wherever peace is no crosses burn

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blackened sky our new normal is death

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bombs over Aleppo

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*Published in my second e-chapbook: filth (Proletaria 2020)

dynamite when prophesy blows my dust

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not your ordinary eclipse the anvil of remembrance

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dark matter unmaking our daily bread

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pounding on the echo chamber door my no to your yes

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head smashed arguing orange until green

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what were you saying these tentacles in me

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going going gone the black of pitch

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into June's hymn I recast your death

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unsheathing daggers your bones expose the lie

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road to home peeling skin in the graveyard

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my other name the redwood hums a processional

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one with Polaris and yet the amygdala kicks

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electric rainbow in the thick of the body

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divisible by infinity all that could have been

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where your story ends I combust into a rose

*Published in my first e-chapbook: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019)

**Selected as Book of the Week by The Haiku Foundation on 10/15/24

I’m happy to announce that my first e-chapbook, says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), is now available for download. You can view it for free here.