If my father decided to do it...

"Start This One in Bernie Sanders Voice" and "Probably I'm on Fire"

the dictionary says living being...

a man stands on stage his cue cards flashing...

As planned, all this lying worked wonders for his confidence.

On Day One, Larry-the-Lizard quits smoking
and eating saturated crap.
Day Two: he buys a hard pack... more

“But beauty wasn’t enough.”
 – Gretchen Marquette
 

Nurturing as a kestrel checking your sheets for mice        I am a woman ... more

young girls walk alone 
at night and 

                               laugh from their bellies, sing 
                               in jungle gym voices 
                               to cradled stars 

Theater of Inheritance

Wrong to say I accept the rough
face of my family. Your father,

so... more

Canada Goose — the age-old adage of 
whether or not a ton of bricks or a ton 

of feathers is heavier & the... more

On the tip of my tongue, the shadow of your incomplete rebellion 
a riverine blister ; a city-street broken into... more

adjective /

fuck yes

We keep what’s between us a secret. 
I’m supposed to be at your house

and you’re supposed to be at mine,
but, really, we lie in the... more

i came to America too young
to be foreign, so all my dreams 
are American and contemporary,
present and blinding as... more

is the egg yolk, broken when it was meant to be fried, 
the sobbing of a child who’s just found 
that their... more

                                                 ⁠–⁠After José Olivarez 

When Carly’s... more

I took the test. 
Persistent rash? 
A cough? A rumor. 
A fungus 

from that polluted 
Ipanema beach. 
I smiled when I heard, 
took a drag,... more

I'm up here along the photograph and its shore, calling to you. Dive off your custom watercraft and swim to the beach. No one of us standing here blames you for being seduced by the once constant tingle of skin we've followed all our lives.

TIP TOP VACATION PERFORMANCE

Two women velcroed a husky, mesh tank top
in order to separate the men from the... more

"Today I Promise," "Rubric for Asparagus," and "My Life"

four times in one day
just because that
ending was fucking
sublime and i cried
the whole way thru
the bit where... more

Oort Poetica

The way ice can become a verdant spring. Horace, you know the way we stare through... more

I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE ANIMALS AND I HOPE ONE DAY TO GET AS EXCITED AS YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE A PICTURE OF A... more

BURLESQUE

~a contrapuntal poem

He was a friend                                                        he became my lover
he took my... more

Polymers

Takes a blow-dryer
to the plastic flower.

Makes its petals
curve the way they’ll be... more