he opens the windows, because the brick walls seem to love trapping in [ the heat ] reminiscent of his mother’s arms in youth; [ but the...

I stride to campus with swinging hips, ignore the honks, the heckling. It is summer and I am wearing a sun dress embroidered in green and...

After Helen Frankenthaler a moon is pale red in an areola of mauve light green-body of the sky hung in web of membranes diaphanous...

Throat just tight enough to suffocate the rank, animalistic grief, the grunts and moans vulnerable as orgasm. Thoughts just crowded...

I have a facility correctional: voice sentenced to be passive; imperative I be interrogative?! Were I to be infinitively subjunctive you...

I carry the loss of loved ones, like jewels pressed between my cupped hands I carry the shock of my awakening, like a sheltered pearl...

The night was cold over the Southwestern hills I miss holding his rings to imagine their labeled as mine but we learned of the lies from...

What happens when you remove a tribesman from his native clothing—leather, linen, silk? He begins to die and self-medicate with chemical...

I’ll rest right here, make shelter out of your sternum, etch a prayer on your ribs. I read it out loud, but all you hear is a howl....

Fall was always my favorite; Halloween, foliage, pumpkins. The crisp cool air that causes goose bumps, but doesn’t yet make you shiver....

i’ve got a jam that’ll make you go tappin’ clappin’ whistlin’ stars and sunsets-- a sticky song a nightingale envies a refrain ringin’...

The day dissolves in my mouth like cotton candy finding it’s peaceful end Hesitant to believe that this never ending day would actually...