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Intruder

A thump on the glass. A snout pressed against the glass door in my living…

Three poems: that i eat birds/ Soft Bodies /Room for Rent

that i eat birds/ and even dreamed last night/ I had coughed the feathers up/…

From The Proscenium: Preface

“After taking the typewriter to her bed, Valence takes apart the typewriter.”

My Big Gay Essay

1. When I was sixteen, my best friend and I found a bolt of bright,…

The Algorithm Falters

The boy on Match says he wants a girl like Proverbs 31:10. I haul a…

Topping from the bottom: A CONVERSATION WITH KEGELS FOR HEGEL AND PATRICIA MONTOYA

In bone-crushing times, don’t mourn, organize. And, reach for a torch song. Or two. For…

Blood Out

You never forget the day the gifts show up. The day my blood first came…

Laritza
El present is a gift

  …A woman named City Hips swing                male…

Untitled # 6

  In December  I broke up with my therapist.  A white man. Jewish. Gay.  Raised…