her legs shook the eyes were fixed on his his gaze followed the tea dripping on her lap conference meetings in a foreign city no such...

The ocean has no time for this You are lost? So am I. And yet you feel alone. You stand up And you inhale Still, salty kindness in the...

Goodbye was like later, loser, don’t let college kill you, and then college killed you. Or the alcohol did. Or the car ride, wasted—I...

Your bare, my bones— we’ll never break even. You pronounce repressed like capital offense. You stomp and slam and seethe, take a...

Moments from the past are precious specimens. Yet, like mold they eventually fester and spoil swollen mounds of dough prepared to rise...

today | even though i have not cried | i feel wrung out | like a dirty dishrag | used and tossed aside | and though i...

A firefighter’s promise is something I think about almost every day When the man I love goes off on a call, most certainly into harm’s...

When I see a hundred birds I wonder what they say It looks like they all trust The one up front to lead the way I put trust in little...

White crested banners of Poseidon, Drape the nerves, Of peat moss sand, Lick the source, Of all stature, Our pebbled feet could afford,...

Nocturnal nebulas enclose — do they enclose? — on a queen-sized bed to breathe life into only one of the bodies there. The other remains...

I spend a lot of time trying not to be the kind of girl who needs you To become the traits that I see in other women, traits that I...

The moon, a fingernail of light tonight, appears, and I return home late. I don’t have anywhere else to be, and you don’t have anywhere...