Gravity is formidable. Apples fall, roll and stop. Deer and squirrels have no clue about Newton’s first law but are thrilled all the...

1. I tell my mother the truth she looks me in the eye with hers soft, tearful. My mother sees me through a haze of what I imagine is love...

His room was bare. Stark white walls, an old-fashioned simple dresser, a bed. My favorite part was his closet. Carefully hung dress...

We began and ended with city benches, One in the heat of summer, where jackets took up space in forgotten about closets. It was easy and...

into my small studio. you scan the room. you make sure you haven’t forgotten anything: key, wallet, phone you shyly discard the condom...

The truth is I’m so lonely, And the bells on the church ring Like a telephone, And I walk the tin can wire between days, And smell the...

You carved my body from soil with a knife but the earth, she doesn’t forget who she’s home to Swords and dismemberment sing in my blood...

The realities that live in our head are our own worst nightmares that we can’t wake up from. A droplet turns into a whole tsunami, and...

For Jennifer Harding Feb 14, 1966 - Sept 19, 2010 I only have one photo of you you are sitting in my house in Boulder mid-sentence, your...

Words from my Friday bend into playlists, mascara in one hand, a drink fills my fist. I perfectly curl my dark-brown eyelashes, while the...

I see how you wait for him, hoping the warmth of your breath will be enough for him to bloom into the man you deserve, but it won’t be....

When I was a little boy, I felt a girl sleeping inside of me. “Who are you?” I would whisper. “I don’t know,” she would answer. “But I’m...