False Portrait
Those aren’t blemishes they’re characteristics of Victorian glaze she appears open & closed the eyes squint into the mottled light lobsters are hilling in a crystal bowl the table and the walls are blue it keeps getting better there are no doors or windows to this room full of eagerness & restraint he will come […]
from Heterotopia of the Valley
◊ Is the newness of unused pillows wrapped in plastic symbol for a good future, are they hopeful instruments stacked like unwanted days, weeks, years pass, increasingly there’s no room for us to stay because the fantasy of what’s to come is more important than us being together in the present I want to kill […]
What A Baboon Can Do
It was the smell that scattered them. That stink of strange, new bodies—so thick you could hardly remember what the air before had smelled like. They ran for the trees, climbed up and hung close to the branches. Once they were up there, they couldn’t sit still. Silence would kill them. Stillness signaled the end. […]
Windows on the Natural World
This is a framing device The heart, nature A gif of restraint Only the implication of desire can be conveyed through my motionless hand over my motionless heart Hanging in there the all kitten depiction of cultural revolution pictured in the restaurant of my youth a glass and brass table flipped The wet fog, the […]
Night Fun
The lake did not begin easily. For a foot it was sand and then five it was rocks and then after, it became sand again. This was the nearest beach. I was pulling off my bodysuit. On the hanger it had been crisp as a soap opera hospital. Yet when I’d pulled it on its […]
Nightstand
go home winter you’re drunk this room I am in is a room I’m not sad I’m on fire great blue eating I’m looking for a word upheaval maybe that’s it when light echoes through the necklace and I see lace in a window calling me to trash my room smoke it out so stars […]
Exposition in an Age of Precarity
It is said we live in an age of precarity. Every age has its own forms of precarity. When people think of precarity, they think of conflict zones or wealth inequality or certain bodies having official vengeance exacted upon them. When people thought of precarity, they thought of nuclear holocaust, periods of scarcity, the possibility […]
Good for So Many
the iron work of a constitutional right each day, in every state, averages and database figures results with power a spectrum of ammunition needs to be made allow the show to go on, whether human skin is the target only 2 and 3/8ths, daily, are killed, with the iron work of a constitutional right so […]
Editor’s Note: Application to Social Work School*
* Only after pressing “submit” did the author understand that she had misunderstood the online application’s instructions and produced eight single-spaced pages rather than the requested double-spaced pages.
