Poetry

#3

Sometimes, my words come at the same time as seeing. The idea that one is not interior to the other.

Lookback Window

She tells me I am a loving human being the same day he tells me I am selfish and spiteful. She tells me I am brave the same day he tells me I’m a coward.

Import-Export

Two days before she gives birth, the 38-year-old watches a breastfeeding video from a national health institute, but it’s hard to practice without a baby.

For Something Real

The fractures, herniation, and slippages somehow become tolerable, managed through an elaborate system of forgetting and excusing and stores of fortitude that might otherwise be dedicated to breaking that which breaks us.

House Call

katharine is getting her monthly brazilian wax $$ she isn’t seeing anyone $$ so this…

Dead Deer

I found her on her side  in the mucky pond behind the house, bedded in…

Basil

On those afternoons when I feel most fraught, broke as a joke, I breathe with the trees.  Yes,…

Making Boardwalks out of Borders

by Lydia Flores there is a languagethe tongue cannotkiss the teeth to speakbut there is…