Here’s to the metal bowl, the beef, the egg, the oats, my mother’s teary eyes as she chopped the onion, to her glowing veiny hands squeezing everything together, the…

    When they see me testosterone gluts their blood and they cannot look away They want to meet me If they get the chance they find me intelligent and…

+++ The bone of a girlhood wish      +++ivory smooth & shining ++++++That I will always   be alone           +++like you & everyone   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Once…

  Once again, some of us are overreacting. We’ve looked in the mirrors again. The heads we invited to sit in on our meeting have begun rolling contagiously all over…

  Create in your mind a room with the capacity to hold an infinite audience. Create in this room a site of relief for the human heart. You may slurp…

A Grandma Ossie proverb it’s 90 degrees in a georgia august & there goes my sister marchin down buckeye barren fingers twirled around a 30 gallon dolla sto trash bag…

  Here, we are always alone at one time and before another. We’ve come by chance, and clatter in, with a surprising strength and with exceptional good nature. Pure and…

  Now, in swimsuits, ready for the public waters, we float inside inflatable stars, starfish, airships, false fins, easily deflated. Imagine what we are, what we might be. Amphibious. Of…

  we come to water even when we know we have good tap at home and the sprinklers are preset to distribute a half-inch of water to the new peach…

  hours spent          navigating switchbacks         & not speaking +++++feel familiar          yet distant          like the…

  You said love because love is better than just living I said I can’t remember love and I’m not having fun You said sometimes love can be found on…

  shelter volunteers face six self +++++identifying women who surf +++++++++++for jobs, housing and Deb — who decrypts Brueghel, Bernie Sanders +++++and baseball conspiracies in black +++++++++++cheerleader sweats. To our…