April tosses and turns in her bed, tucked into layers of chrysanthemum covers and duckling down duvets. huckleberry hums wrap around...

threaten my primal safety / cloud the new moon then blow naked / penetrate / slip into round belly / the steaming warmth going away /...

They didn’t kill a man in a skirt. They killed Alexa. Because it is allowed, they taunted her always and everywhere. In the photograph...

i sat by a river or an ocean or a lake and i whispered to the eels around my ankles words of longing that could just as easily have been...

the slick and razor edges of the roaring sea cut cracked and burned skin. this body was heavy and weak the muscles tired and worn; i...

When they told me to act like a lady When I was angry I sewed her aphorism into my skirt hem And pulled her stockings over mine To guard...

I felt like hammered shit. Last night had left internal tattoos all through my body. Too much whiskey and too much smoke left me feeling...

Jansen crouched low, his body hidden by the corn stalks. The air was still beneath the leaden November sky. He pushed his chilblained...

I am so many things that I often forget So much beauty I that I often miss It is sad truly How I only see the beauty In everyone but me...

My grandmother was what you would call a full woman – hands as salt pillars pummeling in to a pastry that would always curl in the same...

You asked me if I liked Van Gogh. “What?” My eyebrows rose. “The Irises,” you said, motioning to the purple flowers sifting down the...

There are fireflies here Spaced like twinkle lights Stationary truths Of gods gone dim And bright again Here we make time Spinning...