Treblemaker

Treblemaker

NY

YWP Alumni Advisor

Posts

Loves

  • How to drown

    I learned to swim

    When I was young

    I learned

    Freestyle

    Breastroke

    And butterfly

    Now here I am

    Years later

    And all I know

    Is how to sink

    How to drown

    How to go deeper

  • Roses

    It ended with roses.

    I process the funeral in snatches.

    Glimpses, even.

    I see my family spilling out into the cemetery

    Long-lost cousins twice-removed,

    Great granduncles,

  • Where I’m From

    I am from coffee beans,  

    from bitter brews and cracked porcelain mugs.  

    I am from the steamed soy eggs,  

    the scent that clings to mornings  

    like an old, Chinese dwelling.

  • Poetry

    By wph

    Snapple

    There’s a Snapple on the general store roof.

    There’s been one there for quite a while. About three years.

    Must be nasty by now.

     

  • Childhood

    I remember when a phone wasn't important to me

    When all I wanted to do was play outside in the grass

    Watch as the clouds wisped by in the sky