Early, and then late in my 20s, I found you ridiculously strong, pervert, disgusting, untimely, looking to hurt [...]

It’s a hold-up: Death against me Against a wall. The killing moon blooms. I’m wondering: Maybe it’s my [...]

Before the movie the accents of the murmuring women behind me remind me I’m home. Swaddled by the [...]

A Clothesline Jim Rainey If I had to do it, again — If I had no choice, but [...]

Note: this is a prose poem. Dear Window I was there. – Whitman Dear Window sprayed with frozen [...]

I am an emotional cripple. I will always be an emotional cripple. You have been telling me, All [...]

You entwined strands through my organs, so i could not remove you without removing chunks of myself. Snaking [...]

I don’t want to be seventeen anymore. There was too much time on tiled floors; head heavy, nose [...]

I saw the stars; faint, spread out salt grains in the dark   and wondered If I’ll find [...]

The sky resembles the day you fell The horizon filled with dancing flames The same that burned you [...]

waking up heart open grateful, sunny-side-up then the pan flips and I’m tripping, stumbling, cracking open, can’t find [...]

PREFACE I’ve been writing these thoughts on WhatsApp, maybe just to make myself feel the reality of the [...]