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Gilboa

I don't call my mother by anything other than her given name you assemble your jealousy in the kitchen your first husband built, another ...

Candid

I think regret, & there—! you are washed ashore & curdling in my sight as if you have been missing the taste of my cradle as much as I ha...

Every Scholar has his Folly

I. You fantasize about a patch of daisies and a grape vine. Dirty knees, as well as cattle fields, remind you of lace latent innocence pl...

Over the Hill

a man in his 50's told me I was over the hill and soon — I would no longer be ripe or sweet since I was six I have been anticipating my ow...

Seven People Stood in a Kitchen

Seven people stood in the kitchen, breaking silence with wine glasses and the popping sound of grapes being punctured between teeth. On t...

Honey Cornbread

Who waits longer for their lover to show — the living or the dead? The static of a dream, our song on repeat / my pulse alone could carry...

The Cracking Teapot

my perennial fumes unfurled from the sheets and sniffed a bowl of lemon sugar that reminded me of your kitchen | a freckled floor, respir...

Without Shape

lost in my slow pragmatic ballet lost a night room of prism and asters lost assembled my curse without shape lost somewhere in the burnt ...

The Volcano versus The Sad Man

He undressed the flames that built nests atop his shoulders, father volcano, a misshapen pupil leaking a reflection of tulips positioned ...

Screaming Bluebirds

the death of me goes with you too, where sometimes I can see breath pause when you think everything else is moving / it’s all in the way ...

I am the l o v e r.

I am the lover that will consume you whole, just as you are, filled with lies and guilt, suckling the impressions of your esoteric past y...

How Do I Explain This To a Therapist

How do I explain this to a therapist? I live with the proclivity to vindicate your mouth and nullify blame for how the planes folded over...

Re(mix)

Cherry lollipop lips stained like a mess of Crayola marker—there’s an art in sulking behind heart-shaped Mylar balloons floating in a tin...

The Leaves You Pick Off The Blackberry

He held his breath to them all. The way a bushel of blackberries suddenly appears on the side of the road after you’ve escaped from the c...

What Kind of Hands Did The Monster Grow

What kind of hands did the monster grow. A royal flush, peaches and blush blooming epiphanies from the wrinkles in his palms, the despera...

Damocles

You were born to be a Damocles. It's in your name / you share the same snake-like entendre     you lure, into love and linger the sword o...

Four Nicknames and a Uterus

Desi wiped sweat all over the front of his white shirt as I scream about how hot the pavement is - and he hates it - the word pavement. I...

Proserpina

The blood of old idioms climb my suffering like ivy / feral words that slide from my mouth sound just like you, impersonating the vernacu...

White Noise & Kill Bill Sirens

I take two steps towards you. I miss you. I take two steps before falling apart face to face with your apparition, I take two steps         

The Casio Plays

I want to tell everyone what you did - because then everyone would know who you are. A thumbtack on a map that no one sees, a pussy grabb...

Two Cannibals in a Blackout

I am a mirror image of what is inside you. Violence and a bullseye – subliminal sacrifices being antagonized through ticker tape and cart...

A Strong Woman

Being called a strong woman has become a personality trait. A trademark. It’s said in commendation, as a way to stereotype your muliebrit...
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