Author: Jun Hua Ea

In the Clouds 0

Holy Narcist, Batman!

Behold the spirit narcissist, who alone is consort to the unnameable, and sings of Him ecstatically, incessant. Beware: her assured salvation shall not suffice for she is more than smug; she is the prophetess,...

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After Survival

Truth resides in their universe – and canonical precedents. I’m with out. In mine, the gritty cut of obstinance – bitter, wakeful distrust poking hollows in murk. I walk a century of others –...

She and Him 0

Love Poem

Jerry McGuire wasn’t wrong – completely. And it’s not you – it’s me. No, really. Genetic instruction flipped – I’m not my imperative! I preserved myself well my whole life – now I’m ready...

Winter Streets 0

Regular Pick-Ups

He comes like Santa Claus in unmagical night, trailing a monster iron-wrought — a hissing, growling, squealing beast burning yellow and red down streets of dispassion. He is agent of convenient oblivion, undertaker of...

Ginger Gingko 0

Gingko

Its stench souses the atmosphere of a buried autumn — thick and sharp. “Bring mama a handful, not one at a time!” You chided while mashing fruit between your fingers — eject nut into...

World Trade Center 0

Diary from an Empire (III)

14.08.21 Bombs dropped elsewhere — in the empire I awake to this benefit. 14.08.22 whenever I drive a humanist loses hope at least a little 14.09.30 Punish the arena owners severely! Imperial citizens should...

Put Your Hands Up 0

I Yearn To Be Unambivalent With You!

I yearn to be unambivalent with you! I want to be drawn so near I’d know the scent of your amber locks. I want to be enfolded into your breasts of azure so I...

The Sand Pear 2

The Sand Pear

The sun has descended Jersey’s belly as I climb the hill to home. A cold front presses Liberty Street. An old woman flaps beneath a flood of light like moth stripped of a wing...

Diary from an Empire (II) 0

Diary from an Empire (II)

14.08.16 — 4/4 Stars blaze above sea of blood red hope — the promise of our empire. 14.08.29 TSA ravaged my carry-on, CNN says Obama doesn’t have a plan, ISIS has beheaded our son!...

We Are a Mystery of Becoming 0

We Are a Mystery of Becoming

(for Carter) We are a mystery of becoming: obstinate riping of time; capricious tango of biomolecules; the fervent cleavings of a zygote, fated migrations in gastrulas, urge toward organogenesis; discharged into the world a...

Rite 0

The Rite (III/III)

I recall the exodus from Kaoidang: the flight from sprayed bullets into Iron Mountain, the night you hazarded land mines, jungle wild, and the Khmai reds to extract your child from harm. Unfed, barefooted,...

diary 0

Diary from an Empire

1/4 rage in Ferguson their hands up they shout don’t shoot our empire bides 2/4 Brown robbed the store a curfew for Ferguson not the empire more by JUN HUA EA