Our bones 
are always grinning.

my mother finds the name water / sweating blue cloud hairs

Addicted to this feeling / mitochondria eat your television

Run to him,
it urged. Drop to your knees

I AM NOT TAYLOR SWIFT

Today I almost caved and drank.
My new dog has an ulcer
He needs eye drops
Created with his own blood
administered twice daily
I will be in Mexico - Dia De Los

I am at such peace but I take a beat
to pause, that’s all, to feel so full, hearted, set.

coyotes marauding in
waves of slaughter & i’m
jealous of the way

I intimidate men

With my intensity

Please don’t be scared of me

remember when i ruined dinner by taking a bone saw to my sternum?

i turned out alright

Passenger princess, king behind the wheel

the shape of earth

if I could talk to your friends they would dox my hinge prompts. I dream that I'm you and give birth to myself.

Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.

you don’t want to 

come out

looking gauche

you can convince someone of 
anything at all

Infidelity is fed to us as sexier when it’s female

You are so smooth-skinned / I would send your husband / to war to die.

I have let love demolish me.

Destroy something for my sake.

writing questions, like

why does he come over in the bad storms

and make excuses not to leave

“I’m just excited that my first time voting in a presidential election was for a woman,” my daughter said

“yeah,” I said

“that’s so exciting,” I said

On the back of his badge, he had a barcode with which he could change almost anything.

I said, this, this. Call it what it is.

I was a minor saint of empty time.

Strange men bought me piss poor

beer, spirit forward and blood red