RED HOOK

phragmites clumps
weeds and canker

oil-slicked muck
boots on mud patter

gowanus surfacants
on this effluvial

by jovial! the service
entry’s in the posterial!

but the corrugated sheet
holding an empty lot in

with graffiti writ “in some other
place, we will meet again”


Mark Faunlagui was born in the Philippines, grew up in New Jersey and New York, and studied at Cornell University. He is an architect in New York City, and lives in Jersey City. His work appears in Greying Ghost’s The Corduroy Mtn, Omnidawn Publishing’s OmniVerse, Augury Books Online, Sibling Rivalry Press’s Assaracus, The New Engagement, White Stag Publishing’s #Watertome and Fence. On Some Hispano Luso Miniaturists, published by 1913 Press, is his first book of poetry, and the first installment in the Third World Lover Trilogy (02/Majnun and 03/Porn W/Out Sex).