• Indecipherable girl

    momma, the left turn i should’ve taken at the browning of last autumn was swerved before.…

  • What I mean when I say “love”

    “Nothing vast enters the world of mortals without a curse.” – Sophocles It goes like this:…

  • The Shoulds

    In the morning, I’ll sweep the Should-mites up into small piles on the floor until the…

  • Freedom to forget

    I am the wood mouse of America. I am the blackbird snatched from the marsh. I…

  • Lullaby for A students

    Write to rest your head Read to rest your hands Sleep to keep your wits about…

  • The art of cruelty

    The art of cruelty is to feel the blade in your hand & in your heart…

  • An envelope, addressed but otherwise empty

    Eleven doves gather on a telephone wire strung up above a cluster of tree cholla. Take…

  • Brave

    what temple ceases to existunborns to be again a prayless taste of ever is a lovelong…

  • Flight UA 1646

    says latera wet-boiled her from concrete heart) the who-what-how is every face of love still dis-assembled…

  • PTSD

    In an intimate forest of strangers, I am an axe with a human soul, attuned only…

  • The one who got away

    “Got away” implies the alternative is capture, and who’s strong enough to hold a briar-heartfor that…

  • Doubt

    The question is whether or not the clocks will cooperate,whether or not the full Buck moon…

  • Fearful avoidant

    I used to be a lot more open about the specifics of my trauma than I…

  • When you’ve forgotten what you were looking for

    1. Quit wailing on yourself like a colicky baby and find what’s missing Today the world…

  • Baggage

    Driving slow down a street you’ve never seen before, you remember how every city’s a little…

  • Triggered

    I’m not sure if Amber Heard is a liaror if Johnny Depp is a liaror if…

  • The harpy

    Today I learned about harpies, which are my new favorite mythological creature. Greco-Roman monsters, half-woman, half-vulture,…

  • How birds taught me true love

    I love birds so much, I want to hold them. I want to comb their feathers…

  • Hot red hot

    keep it hot red hot hungry-hearted hot & rumbling hot & hitchhiking thumb-struck hothot i mean…