she wonders if I would love her were she ugly; ravished in a fire/gored by wild hounds/broken in half to protect me, I find myself unable...

On the second and final date, I help you fold your laundry. You ask me if I’ve ever worked retail, because I’m impressively good at this,...

every woman wants to own a bookstore café by the beach emergency exit the market saturation of a dream in which everything is everything...

A long languid breakfast pancakes with sausages blueberries dripping in honey-rich syrup oh, I surely deserve it — luscious black coffee...

She carried her mother's pain as a dolly stroking its face, whispering hush in its ear. She unclipped her purse and emptied handfuls of...

As a shell-shocked shell-shaped whorl of a girl, I rock forward into your arms like falling off something, a logor a jigger filled with...

I roll your indecency on my tongue. Like a wad of gum. Something to chew on, And then spit out. But the aftertaste, Fresh and stinging as...

They like to tell me I’m too young to sit with them at dinnertime I’m seventeen — grouped with kids who crack suicide jokes and laugh...

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle;...

how is it that i make clean and put away the dishes? dirty-clean laundry piles up on the creaky wooden slab, day-old groceries patient in...

I take a melon baller to my heart and             scrape out bits of you,            all rotted-under and     sickish sweet and warm....

I spread my hair across the ocean of your skin and cast it out upon the wide open bed. A net of brown fibres and knotted curls. The...