We spent years alone / selecting the correct glassware.

As if it holds something contagious, / the room is sealed with tape, and Dad gives me / a mask.

burn the pink petals within the / clouds as paws made of wood / and velvet tongues lick / whiskers on my face

i play you like a prayer; / sparse cries thrown / in eclipsed desires

I don’t remember if it was something that happened to me / Or just everything happening all around me 

Now extinct, the Susquehannock were a river people of unclear origin. They were said to have told European settlers that they came from a river far to the east…

I took a bite of the sun once / let it collapse inside // a celestial unbecoming: 

Under the Uhaul Ramp / Jaya had driven her car, and suffered a massive concussion

mold and softness / green, pliable like becoming / something else, like / like the / juice collecting under this tree

You kiss the woman with her head all cratered in / don’t worry, she says, I’m waning but catch me next week 

Life flows like water along fiction rendered into fact

Once upon a time, a lady cardinal found lodged in the fresh spring grass, a torn crumpled paper bit, the right bit to cornerstone a snug spring nest.

i printed my lover’s eyebrows / on paper inserts that accompany / things that keep other things / from dying

Maggie, Della, Tallulah, and I went flower-hunting in the mornings. We’d be flower-hunting while breakfast cooked over the campfire.

WWI: you fought in the Battle of Soissons, France, / allies vs. Germans, July 18-22, 1918.

You told me the trick / was to become only lungs / mimic sleep

Reading a quote a famous actor gave about the fiasco involving a certain movie, and how the movie was having its visual effects remade so the main character would be more palatable to the online public…

Blonde college guy in Target met my eye, / and I did not consider it’s because / of my lavender velvet sundress

i wash myself in blood soap / that smells like strawberries / sickly, staining everything it touches

today we try leaving three times. / 1 the howls subside. they find me, back steps, reading a book.