My mother once slammed this door
so loudly my voice ran away.
Here, three of us, men, sat
separate in the living room.
A son’s soft sobbing set the mood.
I forget which. But I remember
that this happened every time
my voice comes out of hiding.

Laid out in the GCE/SEAB Math exam paper format, this poem has 3 sections labelled ‘Lemma 1. Differentiate Citizens by Race’, Lemma 2. Differentiate Citizens by Language’ and ‘Lemma 3. Differentiate Citizens by Religion’.

you get the same
as your sister does

now finish your things
and maybe you’ll get
some sun

Find t. On a bad day, I learned that it takes 10 to 15 stories for an assured fate.

Nine graphs arranged in 3 by 3, each one with an x and y axis, illustrated according to their respective captions.

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Written in a fish bone diagram style, thin angular lines break out from the words and connect to other phrases that add to the poem.

ave maria
gratia plena
dominicus tecum
benedicta tu in mulierubus

A: Every photo in the family album is of someone who is not me.

B: My name is bubbling over on the stovetop of our domesticity.

C: Even a scared crow knows what’s coming.

D: I trace my lineage on the future axis.

We do not fear loss itself, but thinking too much about it — family members given to the undertaker and forgotten until you can gather around their soft resting hole, suit-and-tie.

This poem is presented in a flow chart. It starts with ‘DAWN ON A GIVEN DAY’ and ends with ‘REPRODUCTION’.

A 4 by 4 table — each section a popular literary phrase that has been adapted into modern slang, emoticons and abbreviations.

Ingredients: brain (heart, tongue, consciousness. warning – may speak out of turn. took an iq test aged 8 to prove a point, only to realize he’s been proving another point all along) hair, curled. (unprocessed).

This is a crossword puzzle: There are 4 words across and 3 words down to solve. Below the crossword are the clues. The clues are the poem’s stanza.

This is poem has been placed in an image of a circular maze: it only has one starting point and the maze enters in the centre of the circle.

I peaked in secondary school.
Five hours after waking up I’m doing nothing but not sleep.
My mother as memoir with broken spine.

all that remains
your towel
grief-damp with
sleeping dogs
the heat of possible demolition