relationships

Swinging From a Chandelier

Melissa had something to tell me. We had arrived late at a party in the…

Tlaquaches

  i. I don’t recall the first time I saw a tlaquache, an opossum, though…

ORB WEAVER

A woman reclined in a yellow Adirondack chair with a back like a tongue depressor,…

Preferences

Jamie wakes in a bed that is not her own. It is Mikhail’s bed and…

Cold

The cold is a thing any woman can grow accustomed to. Lacey May learned how…

Still Life

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

Call Me Soft

On a warm August night in Brussels, a curator, Orient, of feminist inclination, dressed up…

Carolyn Saxby
From The Olga Poems

Olga-Helga, I value your stuff. With my odalisque curves, my delirious cockatiel heart Be aware:…

Eyes of the Tiger

Saturday night at Le Tigre and a fight is coming on. Harlem is hot again…

Future Tense

Minerva missed seeing the Pacific Ocean that first time because she was asleep. When she…