lost in a corner of the yard I grow close to what you could have been a mountain discarded tires, splintered lumber, chicken wire, a...

I am at my ugliest when I run, red with exertion and dripping with sweat. I have pulsing veins that appear on my forehead and sometimes,...

When people ask how I’ve been Somehow I know That it’s not okay For me to tell them That my eyes seem to have Started leaking Frustration...

I haven't seen you in-person for the past four months. It's been approximately 121 days since I counted the steps like sacred breaths it...

My thighs covered in Raspberry jam slip from bed towards the pantry My cervix gifts me A pimple the size of a Peregrine falcon You don't...

I’ve always felt living in the city has its perks. As a young girl of 12, my mother and I had just moved to the center of Portland, the...

Lila starts, awakening on the family room couch, a blanket noosed about her torso and legs. In her nightmare, a monstrous tree leafed in...

I watch the water lift the ships to pass, which explains why I don’t make it to the airport nor to San Cristobal de las Casas, nor into...

your own skin until I walked in on my mother carving herself like clay molding her body into one of a better woman engraving a grateful...

People have a bad habit of falling in love with me at bus stops, in taxi cabs, on motorcycles, in secret labs. It saved a lot of money...

She had last seen him thirty years before in an abrupt end to a whirlwind romance. She remembered the glance over her shoulder as she...

Thinking about Tanner tonight starts with a bottle of Dijon mustard, the worst condiment if you ask me. Though, I can’t remember if I’ve...