Kyle Dacuyan

Destination unknown

Dreams are very everywhere

pollenlike some becoming

dust and some will flower

little filament of disappointment

hanging on a bee’s leg

how many times I landed

nowhere I could not believe

the humiliation of wanting

or believing I confuse the two

confound me I continue

why and how but the invisible

is inside memory or desire

dream is something else the back

of one I love walking through

tall grass in a field once

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Kyle Dacuyan writes poems and monologues. He has received the Cy Twombly Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, and an Open Call Fellowship from The Shed. Dad Rock premiered at The Shed in 2024, and a first book, INCITEMENTS, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Pres