Battling Suicide Four reasons To not give up: Three, the names Of my siblings. Four, my own. Matt Smith is an Afro-Latin, Queer, and...

girl-children of the coast See, it was summer back then. My skin was sticky with sweat and my mouth, with your gloss. I remember...

Manly Stew for the Sexist Soul Introducing a brand new “beef” stew! Hey, sexists! And those who don’t realize they are! are you sick of...

Sobriety I have a love-hate relationship with sobriety. sometimes I’d want to make out with sobriety, but other times their natural...

Bubbles This is supposed to be a still moment, one where I sit, face made up, so when the light flashes, the lens captures what I don't...

Do you still think I look like Kimya Dawson? You said I looked just like her and I can’t tell if it’s because we share the same shade of...

Memory- A sweet moment of forever, In the palm of my hand. A delicious breath of eternity, Flows down my arm. Forever young in my mind,...

Worst Case/Best Case: What would happen if I told you I love you? Worst Case, Worst Case, you turn away. I lose again, abandonment. Best...

1 AM Musings And so we find ourselves Trapped in the most remarkable Weakness The smooth back and warm arms I think of first At night...

Mother’s Day 2019 A mother is one thing and more, blessing the world with her full womb. She is radiant, a portion of moon – all she sees...

at a catholic elementary school I watched kids kill bees out of fear— little rich volleyball kids. their playground had a wooden gate. A...

Feeding humanity Today, I almost ate a beetle. It was in the colander that my watery pasta sloshed around in while being drained. I...

Memento Mori I saw a crumpled SUV at the foot of the mudslide. Bumper formed a chrome parabola like it was grimacing. Two ambulances...

And The Wolf. A fragment of the story was muttered over dinner when she was twelve, her aunt, wine-drunk, pulled away before berating her...

Gratitude. My sister, Jeanette, took me to the Flatiron Ruins when I was twelve forcing me to drink more water than I thought possible,...

now for forever i banished you from my head though it made me sick to think of all the hours i'd surrounded you with arms walls ...

morning before the flight home breath in the last pipes failed and the drunks in the coastal dives finally called it a night the...

Elegy for F.A. How seismic is the shift of one life? When he left us the earth heaved a long breath. In the garden where his...

time don’t ever forget about the ones who crawl into the gaps waiting for something like a storm to drive them out the ones that...

Shadow Play The child delights in the sweep of rain on her open face as she floats paper boats on tiny rivers down open sewers to the...