the water's instant when still...

I want to be remembered like this: taut...

"Triple Sonnet to My Harriet Tubman 20" and "Ode to the Lunch Lady"

"Brooklyn Roof" and "Querying"

salat to define the terms of ritual

               [adhan]

A calling, a culling, a... more

I dreamed we were in a department store trying to buy you shoes.

My Brother’s Two Screams 

I heard two screams from my bedroom. Outside,
my brother had killed... more

NAME LIKE A GIRL

I am a girl named older. I get in the way
of my own sleeping. Not being... more

I tried to write a warning
                            in chaste trees and pumpkin vines:
the worst men of our lives will... more

Chōshū

In the courtyard, 
1867. 
The last heir,

black-haired and naked
before... more

here is my chest here is where I remember longing has not visited me in a long time longing who I let inside me longing who I let cut... more

                     for virginia

I threw in an extra fuck because it’s spring

I threw in an extra fuck because the long... more

Ghosts remove fishhooks from animal bodies
in the desolation outside an empty house.

Somewhere between a fortress &... more

To the White Woman in Dayton, Ohio Holding an I ONLY SUCK BLACK DICK Sign at the Counter-Protest to a... more

i don't know how to manage time
the same way i manage my 
body

away from men
and... more

The predominant inquisitor of women accused of witchcraft, it is theorized, was a sadist with acousticophilia: a... more

I REALLY NEED TO STOP FUCKING MY FRIENDS

but o, what of the familiarity?
of known hands learning... more

Silos and Lip Gloss

We lie on the floor of your living room.
You push up to your elbow and stretch... more

The Years Dad Blamed the Breeze

Some nights I imagine Dad as the lift in a shoe or wing of a... more

“and where’s the melody
to remedy the melody, the remedy to remedy the remedy” 
      -Diane... more

Macy’s Closeout... more

CYCLE

i sit
drip blood
think i am
such a giver
(whether
i want to be
or not)
where’s your... more

Upward Mobility

First, we push the children into their games and giggles, to insulate them from... more

seeds

when nothing smells like you
i let dawn-colored fruit rot in the blue bowl
spray perfume... more

in the bella resource center

that lesser bond girl
her name was a play on genuflect

i can be... more