you & me at kenwood parkthat one photo of us:you in a coca-cola t-shirt, cigarette arms distortedby the wide angle lens,shielding me, not yet the poet, from the sun.denim on…
Did they tell you Eden was cool? Well, it had a breeze. But not everywhere. Not by the apples, not a breeze like that, what you imagine it was. Him…
We’re in velvet and satin, decorated with lace and pearls, our dyed high heels sinking into the grass. We find the river, walking at midnight, our gowns stained by mud…
Mrs. Ikeman entered the shop just before it closed. She handed the butcher her list.“You’re kidding,” he said when he read the list.“Berlin surrendered…” she began to say, but he…
Your mother notices when you don’t wear blush or when your teeth aren’t white enough, but not when your clothes are falling off or when your hair comes out in…
He’s almost too obvious in his ordinariness, that’s what catches my eye. As if wearing the camouflage of a regular person, just another wan, undernourished white dude in a capital…
Vanessa knew she’d never achieve enlightenment when Fran said it had cost her $400,000 to build the meditation room. It had been Joel’s study, but Joel was gone. Vanessa told…
Carolina Moon... That's what Mitch called her. Said she shone as bright as moonlight on the Ashley River. Bathed in that very moonlight, Lonnie sits alone on the houseboat…
April 2020 – Tarragona – Lockdown, Day 47 After talking about her, silence always arrives.Not the polite kind.The kind that comes in uninvited, sits beside me like a forgotten relative, and…
I like a boy who can haunt me,whose lean against a doorframe is a bitten lip. I’m a sucker for a liar’s smile, sweat-wet hair and eyes like a horse…