We pluck expertly with our teeth. Prying this sweet opaque from its stem. Our hands, a crime scene. We smile at each other, mouths full...

Where kingdoms rise and fall, the site of power and arbitration. Where secrets are nursed, oaths stacked. The door to safety, swagger,...

He is a kind man who doesn’t wear the stereotypical white coat, though he still takes notes, observing her as she speaks. A polite fellow...

after Chen Chen We discard our mermaid tails at thirteen but never stop meeting in water, hands clasped as we plunge full body into...

the list begins with an explanation of the nonlinear nature of time, how humans made it chronological despite everything happening at...

I crave a second with you in a world where time stretches like a ribbon boundaries melt like snow religion loses its grip and loving you...

heartbreak is its own kind of grief/but there is no funeral or coming together/to celebrate the life/ it is a coming apart/an untethering...

You said, this is a girl’s apartment—most days, plaits of sunshine swayed on the pressed and white shoulders of our walls, and brushed...

Trapped, lost in snow-covered northern lights, Wishing to stumble on dirt hollers. Misplaced on this dreadful map. I yearn to be quenched...

Does it make me feel better being the peaceful person? The forward person? The person that doesn’t need anything to do or say something...

O, play that melody; play it again, again— it makes me think of he that runs to me. Moonlit and in sunlight my door opens to him— sunlit...

Some wombs House cysts not children Cramps, not comfort Monthly punching bags Scrambled self esteem Eggs over, not easy Not sunny, not...