a projection screen, the woman herself, invisible vamp, vixen, dominatrix, a cock tease Mommy, nurse with kisses, Band-Aids, chocolate chip cookies therapist with answers, a

I fell in love with you as much as I dared a teaspoon, maybe half, as much as I dared. I stirred it through and

Where walls are made of eyes stacked in rows, a crooked little person obsessed with balance, moved through dappled shade just at the edge of

I imagine you at night in a white adobe house, cool with thick walls, green shingles and shutters, a brick courtyard lit by Japanese lanterns.

Fly away heart be eaten by crows. Die season sweet you embittered rose. Keep your bower shut. Keep bound your twinkling toes Sing me no

It was never new just new to me like she was She had it on when I woke up open, with the tie disappearing between

The summer I remembered what love is I candy-striped at a hospital. I asked a girl I worked with how her day went. She told

The nail clipper left out for me on the lid of the toilet seat because we’re so in sync, so in love, our nails grow

Have I asked the wrong question? Rhetoric, its answer feels like a secret that shouldn’t be kept: broken heart still beats in spite of its

September 1 – Elkins, WV  I want to hold faith for broken things a bird struggling to fly and hope the wing  isn’t truly broken

If I could swallow our words, our poisonous voices, push them deep within myself, I would. But your pain vanished in a moment, and then

Does truth come in different colors, like weather, the sky containing and dispensing alternating moods by degree, whim, wind. Temperature is a temperament, and now,

One summer night more than five years ago the church across the street burned down. You reached the end of the sky and pulled out

I think you are a witch you know the secrets of things that grow in the earth you spend hours each day in your garden