She never did get out of that town. It is a very common story and this one is hers: Her father insisted she and her sister wear skirts until the 7th grade. No one understood why he did this. Everyone understood why he did this. They had no brothers. Her stepmother was famous at their […]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first meeting of the Please Stop Killing Us and Destroying Everything That Sustains Us Society. I know that some people feel that organisation and protest are not the correct responses to recent events, including the events that involve us being killed and everything that sustains us being destroyed. Some […]

THE SHOPPING PLAZA   My mom’s car is full of leaf beetles. For each beetle that flies back out of the window, two new beetles appear. My mom does not acknowledge the leaf beetles. She is late to meet my sister at the shopping plaza. My sister is waiting at the shopping plaza. The shopping […]

There has to be a way in to the feelings in which something is at stake without sacrificing myself (and my loves!) to serve as tedious little idols—   there has to be a way to feel without names—   When you left me and I believed it was only for a while I was […]

in dead of dawn my phone beats me awake with a voice on the line asking if I talked to you & I knew it was you she meant because your texts just twelve hours back misbehaved & spilled your panic I bypassed for sake of short-range saneness before warfare at the day gig which […]

When did I know Sonia? Well I knew her in Chicago. I must have lived there for a while. It felt long—extended. A sudden new apartment is the caesura of city-living, an interruption that continues the poem. I knew Sonia when I did not even know Nina. Nina did not replace Sonia. These were not […]