"Blooper Reel" and "A History of Sex"

"Wild Seeds of Plums" and "Old Name"

"Nereid, Compromised" and "Day One"

"Give Us the Runway & We Will Lift the World" and "Instructions in the Event of an Emergency"

"Unlikely to Condemn" and "Different Circumstances"

I thought Roger Waters was full of shit, I mean

I'm Sorry but Your Childhood Pet Can't Recognize You on FaceTime

people say I move like my mother     they say my sisters
& I have the same eyes          only way to tell we are sisters
they

Do 4.1% and 103,000 Mean Anything to You? Are you 18-45? You could join our hepatitis vaccine study. *Donations will be accepted at the door* courtesy of Artificial Eye.

See what’s new: Bat brain

The slow stacking of weight or the flinging down of a toe while the torso is already ahead. There are always new body parts to hit on sides of doors. I like to put my legs into pants in front of an open window, then stick my head out to see who’s around.

O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru

My sister has been reading a lot about her pores lately. At the moderately priced tourist town spa where we've met for the weekend, a commercial for the dual action microdermabrasion brush comes on the television above the hot wax station, and she swears their blackhead diagram is incomplete.

It was supposed to be
a joyous thing

1.  My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me.  We had dinner with her once.  She was a family friend.  She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis.  I hated her but I didn't know why yet.

Via some prophecy, my son has
reached one half my chronological
age. And there are so many things

he can tell me: when The Macho Man
first claimed the heavyweight belt,
the year I bought him

spell for electron microscopes/ for silicate minerals & landfills

if my friends say you are a cell tower & I am a bird

if when I say I dream of archaeology what I mean is you

Well look, the radio says ... 

TO LOUISIANA

I cry because of
how much time
we lost of my childhood
not singing in the front seat
of the white truck yelling
swing low
sweet chariot
coming forth
to carry me

Treat

I want to be rewarded for my good thoughts. My good purchase. I want free shipping. Gentle handling. I buy eyeliner. The felt tip, and pointed. I want someone to clap. I buy steel boots. I

Cosmogony

In January the birds awakened mid-
flight. In February the bats left
their cave and we called it abandoned.
In March a civilization arose
and fell. In April a ream of gauze
unfurled,

scare tactics

I grew hands by the dozen
I was a generalized reaching
clasping monster it was
not a dream shared or
otherwise it was neither
yours nor mine nor ours

the scariest

air wants
to hold
flame down

Did we go to Boston twice or did all this happen in one trip? I remember two different rooms but we used to change hotels all the time, just to feel like criminals. Once we stayed in an old converted

The kettle boiled; I made the tea,

And when I turned around,

I saw she’d set the cups and placed

A third one for the skull.

unadorned

Lick me with your warm
honey tongue. Give me your port-wine
stain birthmark.

You are your pale
moonlit clavicles,
clanking against mine.
 

Pencil erasers for nipples.

You

please believe me
            when i tell you this
            when i tell you of the high concentration of uranium and thorium