She woke up in midsummer as if from a long sleep Arms aching, lungs filled with dust Hurtled into the world with stinging eyes And...

Stage One, Eudaimonia, Age Seven: the reticent Father’s hand squeezes tight onto his Son’s – a sun-stained elegy on the isle of palms...

my_ultimatum = input("Have you become enough today?") value = 0 if my_ultimatum == “no”: prove_my_doubts = input("Why?”) if...

One August morning, I carried the bowl of grain out, lifted the lid, & a plume of flies twisted into the air. Heaped in the corner was a...

The dog came in September. Yellowish, he limped to where I stood at the end of the driveway. His underside was stained dark like wine...

I know you don’t care what my body looks like, But I give myself new scars every week to see if you’ll notice. I know you don’t care that...

Let’s pretend we’re sleeping on the ship’s deck chairs. We whisper, and imagine the evening growing colder. Above those tangerine cliffs...

A day will come when I open all the windows in this house, and let the sounds – the chirping of birds, the sighs of wind, the rustle of...

When I was younger, I used to make paper boats. I'd put them in the streets when it rained, I'd run on the sidewalks, following them. My...

After Toni Morrison’s “It Comes Unadorned” It comes Unexplained, unspooled red thread tied around your head; a broken promise. It comes...

I read a book the other day. The protagonist kills himself, and it is beautiful. Everybody weeps. And I mean everybody. Absolute buckets....

i stand wide-stanced in a holy sanctuary, a martyr saint beckons me to stay and listen to the unspoken-turned-mumbled prayers from...

There is a certain morbid satisfaction in the realization of something terrible. The longer my sadness sat, the more i found it twisting,...

she’s sitting in front of the gas station, smoking a cigarette. she’s straight out of a film reel, a print in a magazine. a high to ride,...

there's life inside your lungs, love lingering, longing to emerge; who dare tell you to repress it? listen my dear, the wind in your ear,...

my brother could never chase me through the garden because he failed to bloom days flapped through my hair as the dirt decided its day to...

Do you remember the time we ran in the fields behind our house Carved our names into trees and trampled in the grass Threw our hats in...

your fingerprints are fading away. it’s been a while since we were created, perhaps essence preceding existence, perhaps vice versa, but...

i don’t know what your wedding venue looked like but i know the bathroom ceiling had no ledges for a nylon rope. eyeliner between hand &...

ever since I could count the coins in my father’s pockets i’ve known. ever since I could hear the creak of my father’s footsteps and feel...