Floral straight jackets hiding women It’s too pretty to get dirty High high heels knees [...]
Outside my window there is steam and there are lights in a skyscraper where people [...]
I’m hunting for ghosts, In alleys lit by memories, Phantoms of yesterday, Carved out of [...]
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Knows the heart ache of canaries. Hummimg bird to spilt milk No friends same dress [...]
Today I am thinking of you and Michigan. Remember how back in the day I [...]
You tell her you love her the day she graduates. It’s a carefree spring morning, [...]
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It never occurred to me how messy I can look. It’s almost finals week. I’ve [...]
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She cornered herself against the shoulders of two meeting walls and wrote her screams into [...]
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Focus on this moment. How do I [...]
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Back home, my sister’s bedroom overlooked our back deck. She could climb out her windowsill [...]
‘‘It’s okay to change your mind.’’ About feeling, a person, a promise of love. I [...]
[Ring, Ring, Ring] The telephone rings but I don’t want to answer On the other [...]
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Coincidence did not cause the young man’s cheek to share the curve of mine in [...]
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I dreamed of the day, In the dead of winter, A dreary day, When I’d [...]
Meet me in the mountains Of Oregon (Washington’s been having too many fires). It won’t [...]
Tomorrow is that glint in your best friends’ eye, When he proposes a daring plan. [...]
I can feel the evening sun, warm on my face, but the chill of the [...]
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Bloated clouds float above the prison, obscuring the sun. I linger outside the narrow cell [...]
It’s been 6 months, 13 days and 4 hours since I last weighed myself. I [...]
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“I’m afraid your head will fall off,” Esme said. “What silly nonsense,” her friend replied. [...]
