I own that mansion, the one near the beach with the floor-to-ceiling windows, the walkway lined with statues of men mid-run as if frozen at
Read MoreThe kind – whittle the world, careful strokes that shape a truth, a need, a sadness. Rough edges exposed in patience, carving the texture to
Read MoreI firmly believe that infatuation is an Alchemist frothed in coastal sea foam Growing up, I was obsessed with the minty shade and hue That
Read MoreYou taste like gin and .40s and you say you don’t hate anything about me. We kiss. And kiss again. Kisses that eat the miles
Read MoreIt’s not your remaining burning cold on my skin that I mind (Somebody new will extinguish the frost and carve me into a sandcastle— or
Read MoreThe sky is dying flame. Let’s whisper its virtues on the porch. No sob stories, no regret Not with what we have accomplished. The willful
Read MoreI stroked her stomach and thought of all the things I didn’t want to do that day. She lay, stroked my fingers, and did the
Read MoreWhat soft brightness is this? This light reflected off the salt pond, gentle as your eyelashes when you sleep, dumb with beauty and promise as
Read Morethey vanished into the branches of paper became a comma forgotten in a line rain splashed the book and the words became blurred;
Read MoreIf you can’t remember where I am roam back home. Echoed things be edged, how we used to fetch purple grapes barefoot, octave vines, bruised
Read MoreToujours pour la premiére fois
Read MoreWith someone else I might have had a child. He might have had one, too. (I tuck the
Read MoreWe thumbed pages by candlelight, muttered weak attempts at words, assumed dramatis personae as tragic players stroking skin like a prop, fingers lingering at sides.
Read Moremy mother presses me, pushes me, because she was taught to press a wound which bleeds, staunch the flow, she presses into my stomach, applies
Read MoreThe fan whimpers one final cry before it relinquishes the impossible task of keeping me cool. Lights flicker off and sticky air creeps through the
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