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woo
August 18, 2022
I don’t think I ever told you but sometimes I can see ghosts — Terry that one time in Amsterdam, jetlagged as I was and walking walking walking to keep from...
biting point
August 9, 2022
i sold a world
ruche
August 3, 2022
In the way that, when you pull at a loose thread sometimes it will drag the rest of the fabric and pull it into little hills and valleys as though it cannot...
fairy tale: shhh
August 1, 2022
into the woods we go
dry drunk
July 30, 2022
i’m trying to remember how she said it this morning, talking about about sonya: something like ‘he was alright that one, maybe a bit annoying you know but...
i regret to inform you that the birds have left our climate and ascended to the moon
July 29, 2022
these are they things they carried with them
this has been a test of the emergency broadcast system
July 26, 2022
yesterday i closed my eyes, in the sun i could still see the fine net of blood vessels in my eyelids. i could hear the sound of distant screams, maybe of...
i have ways of making you talk
July 20, 2022
Da sam ptica i da imam krila, ja bih cijelu Bosnu preletila
lurid!
July 19, 2022
These daughters they walked by the river's brimA hey ho and me bonny oThe eldest pushed the youngest inThe swans swim so bonny o I’ve been thinking lately...
polyfilla
July 8, 2022
for my friend g. and for marie
time capsule
July 2, 2022
Please be very gentle when you open the box; the day inside of it happened 9,123 days ago and it was a Wednesday, if that matters. Jimmy Stewart also died on...
hot moms in your area
June 19, 2022
are picking their way across the top of the fence at the bottom of your mortgaged lawn, as nimble as raccoons pausing to knock over your bins and pick up the...
i was a topless mermaid
June 12, 2022
Like anything else, I guess — heard about it from a friend who heard it from a friend who and so on. By then I had been already working some months as Saucy...
the language of flowers
June 12, 2022
once someone said you know they’re sex organs, right? leering. i thought buddy what isn’t
fever
June 7, 2022
I like to think about how it started, but I always like to think about how something starts. It’s not how some people imagine, one toppling domino that...
sacraments II
June 3, 2022
lying on a hospital bed exhausted, body like a crime scene, in the dim two women are slowly wringing out warm water from cloths over me. turns out i’m still...
sacraments
June 1, 2022
how i would arrive home exhausted from working and you would bundle me into the shower, every kitchen smell slowly exorcised from my skin, my hair until i...
lake effect
May 31, 2022
dedicated to all my northern kin and relations
though you don’t even know i write (to you)
May 29, 2022
for C.
our lady of speed and wheels
May 27, 2022
hail mary full of grace, let me win this stock car race
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