Cover of LIVES

 

“In LivesCJ Evans acutely tunes into the signals emitted from finite and infinite worlds near and far—amidst perpetual violence, wars, and ecocide. The collected signals make up a stunning language that intricately weaves the personal and the political. Lives offers us a deeply intimate and prophetic observation of the now.”

—Don Mee Choi, winner of the National Book Award for DMZ Colony

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academy of American Poets

The dandelions in the moment and then

Elegy in Limestone

 

The Adroit Journal

Three Poems

 

Agni

Venery

 

Alaska Quarterly Review

Treason

 

Boston Review

This Time in Wartime

 

The Cortland Review

Two Poems

 

Conjunctions

Three Poems

 

Crazyhorse

An Orchard Is a Forest We Broke

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LitHub

What the Seas Would Make Us 

 

[Pank]

Two Poems   

 

Poetry Daily

Every Ending Should Make a Sound 

 

Poetry Society of America

Night Terrors in America   

 

Poetry Northwest

Metamorphosis   

 

Verse Daily

Penitent   

 

Virginia Quarterly Review

Ghost Poem 

WHAT THE SEAS WOULD MAKE US

 

 

I don’t know how to tell you about

the rain. It falls as if all these woods

 

weren’t owned. It bends the arcs

of meteorites and flies, invites

 

uninhibited fucking on blankets of fir

needles. That night in Harlem we didn’t

 

kiss: this lifetime of lovely almost-but-

never pain is the rain’s. I want it to riot

 

at my small end, loose in the flowers

that’ll roof my grave. If we stop

 

with all these buildings and laptops

and flashing LEDs—all our

 

ceaseless wanting—this rain will

grow us a world new, naked and wild.

 

 

 

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