Full Stop
I want to have sex with someone, a person. It could be a man or it could be a woman or it could be a man who was once a woman or a woman who was once a man or someone who is both all the time and every day. The person could be ugly […]
The Invisible Cows
When Juju told me Isabelle was sick, my first thought was, What else is new? My next thought was, Good, at least we can get out of here now. It was Easter Sunday, and that morning we’d had our daughter, Isabelle, baptized at the same church where Juju’s parents had been married forty years earlier. […]
Cooked Water
Something hard pressed to be stopped. Look. A train rolls by the window and the birds at home on the water take off while he’s cooking eggs, cleaning up, speaking softly to himself in the quiet of the dining room, finally eating his eggs with a spoon. There’s one leaf in the yard; not his […]
Yogurt Code
Once, he had lived in this apartment, once his room and my room were only separated by a bathroom. Once, I dreamed of slipping violently through white painted sheetrock and tile and exposed brick, crushing it, striking it down, blow by blow. I dreamed of growing suddenly huge and swelling up like a balloon, trampling […]
Innovation Nation
1. HI Hi, I’m a new self-driving car. I drove all the way to this poem. I love this poem b/c I ♥ collaborative spaces where team members can work in teams to innovate and discover applications. Hi, is it done yet? Can I touch it? I pray for the poem to get bigger & discover […]
The Approaching Planet
PUNDIT: What do you recall about the darkness? THE OLDEST LIVING ASTRONAUT: Absolutely everything. Between commercials for brain insurance, the only major news channel still remaining reports the discovery of a significant new planet: one, they say, that on its surface looks exactly like our own. It seems ridiculous at first, seeing photos so […]
Dorothy
Together we can rewrite that day they took you, faster than any twister we’ve seen. Kansas grass and four walls that are more alive than us, but it’s the perfect background for a #selfie, chola transplant, dark lipstick & slicked back hair. We are in the midst of a prairie, Dorothy, and this is almost […]