Hark the herald angel sings I don't know what Gabriel stands for but St. Anthony helps you find lost things walking down the church aisle...

Never have I dreamed you caught between the corners and long sweeps of stanzas, but again I thwart myself. My heart and liver leavening...

Minutes past noon, I see mother is still in bed. Now she shakes her head, shakes me away and will not rise. It is only the scraping of...

after the rain stopped pounding, we stood in the veranda watching vendors walk down the hill pushing wheelbarrows, balancing baskets on...

F,E with a squeal of scales Practice, practice, practice Frustrated mind Silence Heavy tick of metronome Lulls: Spotlight’s fog embraces...

is it alright to start at the beginning? kneeling, strands of seaweed slipping through my teeth, locked in an orange slice grin. imagine:...

honey-slow afternoon, trickling down my shooting green veins, venetian canals, in death fish float belly-up. the physics of it evades me,...

He had a black eye when he opened the door, I'm surprised my mom even let me stay. I comforted him as he cried sorry tears and wished my...

ink strokes on cotton. I was embarrassed by your feral howls but also intrigued— you were the one who looked like me. the color of a...

The summer we moved to the city, I was ten. I remember the sound of my mother's laughter ringing through the empty house, the way she...

last night, my mom whispered her run to my half-awakened ears. her tears, my inborn holy water, soothed me and her whimpers rushed me...

I won’t stop saying milk ‘wrong’, or writing with a real pencil. But we can walk around the track, I’ll listen to you talk about how much...

She woke up in midsummer as if from a long sleep Arms aching, lungs filled with dust Hurtled into the world with stinging eyes And...

Stage One, Eudaimonia, Age Seven: the reticent Father’s hand squeezes tight onto his Son’s – a sun-stained elegy on the isle of palms...

my_ultimatum = input("Have you become enough today?") value = 0 if my_ultimatum == “no”: prove_my_doubts = input("Why?”) if...

One August morning, I carried the bowl of grain out, lifted the lid, & a plume of flies twisted into the air. Heaped in the corner was a...

The dog came in September. Yellowish, he limped to where I stood at the end of the driveway. His underside was stained dark like wine...

I know you don’t care what my body looks like, But I give myself new scars every week to see if you’ll notice. I know you don’t care that...

Let’s pretend we’re sleeping on the ship’s deck chairs. We whisper, and imagine the evening growing colder. Above those tangerine cliffs...

A day will come when I open all the windows in this house, and let the sounds – the chirping of birds, the sighs of wind, the rustle of...