Douglas Kearney is an American poet.
He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Nocturnes, Jubilat, Gulf Coast.
He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
for Deshawn, Eric, Dallas, Jerome & Lerone
We brown boys
play
stick games,
...
there was a remember when the mama was my girl
the mama was in my girl biding to turn
...
Picture the upturned millipede, dead,
and see the streets of Altadena:
palm tree rows against the concrete, stiff
...
The jolt that comes to bones inside a tumbled streetcar
is what the painter considers as she strokes her-
self into story. There is less to the jolt that
...