When I was younger, I used to make paper boats. I'd put them in the streets when it rained, I'd run on the sidewalks, following them. My...

After Toni Morrison’s “It Comes Unadorned” It comes Unexplained, unspooled red thread tied around your head; a broken promise. It comes...

I read a book the other day. The protagonist kills himself, and it is beautiful. Everybody weeps. And I mean everybody. Absolute buckets....

i stand wide-stanced in a holy sanctuary, a martyr saint beckons me to stay and listen to the unspoken-turned-mumbled prayers from...

There is a certain morbid satisfaction in the realization of something terrible. The longer my sadness sat, the more i found it twisting,...

she’s sitting in front of the gas station, smoking a cigarette. she’s straight out of a film reel, a print in a magazine. a high to ride,...

there's life inside your lungs, love lingering, longing to emerge; who dare tell you to repress it? listen my dear, the wind in your ear,...

my brother could never chase me through the garden because he failed to bloom days flapped through my hair as the dirt decided its day to...

Do you remember the time we ran in the fields behind our house Carved our names into trees and trampled in the grass Threw our hats in...

your fingerprints are fading away. it’s been a while since we were created, perhaps essence preceding existence, perhaps vice versa, but...

i don’t know what your wedding venue looked like but i know the bathroom ceiling had no ledges for a nylon rope. eyeliner between hand &...

ever since I could count the coins in my father’s pockets i’ve known. ever since I could hear the creak of my father’s footsteps and feel...

something blackens inside. maybe it is stomach acid, after blanching my tongue in bitter chocolate. i am scared something will shatter if...

You think you can veil us. You think you can hide us away. You think you can vanquish our presence. With your law that cries, “Don’t Say...

i saw your words. red paint pulsating with your one-track message bet you wielded that brush with conviction. i’m imagining you now, how...

It comes back like a headache in the middle of the night Do you remember how she always wanted you to be the man? which meant going above...

how to use liquid eyeliner / poems about womanhood / is it normal to have constant stomachache / sugar cookie recipe / why am i so tired...

We leave the orange peels on the counter, quickly discarding them in our haste to squeeze the fruit. Such is the ritual of our Sunday...

Even my family jokes i'm adopted And i laugh along with them Although my mom sister and i share the same big, brown eyes That is the only...

The cat That sat In the window seat Wonders about the world. Greeted at the door, Wishing whiskers brush the cracked glass pane. Fur...