The Run-Up

"Trump Win is a Grand Slam for Banks"
Yahoo Finance

"Trump to Tap Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary"
Market Watch

"Wall Street Wins Again as Trump Chooses Bankers and Billionaires"
Bloomberg

"Trump Treasury Choice Vows to Strip Back Dodd Frank"
Wall Street Journal

"Trump's Wolves of Wall Street"
New Yorker

Mr. Trump's first-round economic appointments of Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross are not the long-awaited people's justice whose specter he used to boil his campaign messaging, nor do they reflect his vision of divorcing the architects of New York finance from the operatives of political sway in Washington. And yet, even in the dissonance, there's a nauseous lack of surprise.

The Middy

my hands
ache from pounding tables
banjos and footstomping
the Minnesota north
you all look like
screaming whiskey

Closer

sideways light and heat from the early Atlantic night
when i ran
the Cotonou streets
pacing open jawed sewers
i was closer to it
closer to my brain's music player
to the machine in me, capable
and broadcasting powerful things