Recovery Looks a Lot Like Picking Up a Paintbrush
my skin isn’t paper but that doesn’t stop me from carving the weight of the world into my wrists crimson blood tiger stripes. or from ripping apart the pages of a story i never asked to be in don’t judge a book by its cover-up that is, pant legs and Read more
Seducing a Dying Wizard
It’s like being drunk, my fingers running through the dollhouse knocking over everything I don’t know what’s happening to me, the clumsiness, the heaviness of city infrastructure weakening over time, potholes replacing my eyes, my mouth a bridge collapsing in the middle my nose a public school rotting from the Read more
My Body, My Choice
Dear God, I haven’t been talking to you much. I’m sorry I haven’t been in touch. I lost my faith for a long while. I lost myself, too. I forgot I was your perfect creation. I forgot the privilege it is to be female. I forgot I was able to Read more
This City Knows Our Name
She used to feel like home. back when I couldn’t tell the difference between the hand I wanted to hold and the thumb she held me under. The crushing pressure of my reflection sinking further until I couldn’t see myself existing outside of her shadow. And just like my home, Read more
Morning Glory
Blue-fire trumpet perking her young velvet, little blossomed bud new & blue-brite kind, strung noble on her vine. Plucked, not plumped-up or blushed fully Heavenly yet. Blue-Whirling flame of hot-cool Heaven fire. Royal & sweet hot-oiled, delicately spread— open for the inhale of morn. Petal peeled back, downcast blues lighting Read more
The Brothers
Mr. Harley was one of those fun, quirky uncles who filled a room, except he wasn’t family. He was always at our house. I can clearly picture him perched up on dad’s ladder, a roll-your-own smoke dangling from his bottom lip, one long muscled arm holding a ream of wallpaper Read more
MY MOTHER’S SCARVES
Blue paisley when she feels humble Green polka dots when the beauty parlor is closed Stars and stripes for the Fourth Red and green for Yuletide Magenta for seducing the department chair Navy blue for telling my father it never happened Pink and yellow for the parent-teacher conference Beige to Read more