by zamora | October 17, 2023
Looking for all the world like some creature’s innards,there are mushrooms wet with last night’s rain at my front door.Tomorrow they will be on the stone slab that passesfor my welcome mat. They have crawled there alone.Their movement is like that of a slug across...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
For Maria I. The only way I can remember late May in the Blue Ridgeis with my fingers in my hair, as if touching the stamen of a bloodroot. Our AC unit...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Banded snails are growingpaler shells to preventtheir bodies from baking. The sea snake radiatesgreen light to find its preyin fathoms further down. Wild animals deprivedof native habitatshrink to live in cities. And these frogs with two heads:what am I missing?Their...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
After sex we broke the blinds, trying to catch a glimpse, but the moon was hidden behind tomorrow’s storm clouds (and besides it wasn’t that much bigger anyway). Jordan saidI’ll probably be dead by the time it comes around again when I told him of the rarity of this...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
My older sisterbelieves in chemtrails,those smudgy autographs airplanes leaveon the blue yearbookof the sky Airplane Was HereHave A Great Summeretc, in disappearing ink And I still believeheaven is whateveryou want or not and God is Santa Clausbecause sureBut let me...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Dead Dog at the Beach Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico I was sitting with the old hippiein his campsite by the beach.A dead dog in the waveslike a kid’s grotesque float. The flies swarmed in after each wave, dispersing as the next one crashed. We talked of the atrocities of...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
After Hugo Rheinhold’s Affe mit Schädel An ape holds a human skulland contemplates itface to face like Hamletabsorbed in his existential moment.Hardly 12 inches tall,cast in bronze, the ape sits on a stack of books,one spine inscribed “Darwin,”who noticed in...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
Field Guide for the “White” Naturalist or: The Trees Speak a History I Did Not Know Instructions with a Disclaimer: If you bring this guide into the field, keep in mind that it is best read with a wariness of white spaces, identifications, and curations. Carry a...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
One can no longer live with people. It is too hideous and nauseating…like the two sides of a ghastly disease. —D. H. Lawrence I count three masks as I sit outside the hospital. White fabrics muzzle faces as if these faces belong to rabid animals,...
by zamora | October 17, 2023
As the sun rises on arctic oil wellsthe poverty line moves to low tide. Given the state of affairs, who can begrudge any fresh water dwellers who need a couple small bumps to keep ketamine-based side-hustles healthy. Any dopey decapod is...
