She healed on top of crackled glass. The pretty kind that took care to craft with an artist’s chisel and practiced hand, one swift jab and it grew a thousand corners; an appearing act. She became whole on glass whose outsides hold a molten core of loose ends, moving parts, a mosaic of shards and […]
Read more...This is the thing, I know, that will expose me. To all the folks who openly chose me, all the friends who caught me and rose me, all the blood that thinks that it knows me, all the eyes whose openness froze me— my stillness unclothes me; it taunts and erodes me. My curtains have […]
Read more...Like pennies, I’ve caught and cradled promises tossed in handfuls between tourist passersby hailing taxis curbside, their soon, soon pledges ring of goodbye as yellow doors swing— Winds are strong near my waters, and so I hold stray vows in my fountain bed. My limbs glisten with giggles of children who play near my dancing; proposals […]
Read more...When my feet touched ground again after you, my toes and heels landed in separate hemispheres; my arches caressed the equator. Ahead: Giving soil, spring rain-soaked pasture parts for me–its welcome soothes my toes into submergence amid pebbles and worms, their sliver of Earth, they offer for my roots to grow, for my grounding as […]
Read more...My first city breath without you brought drafts of soot and sharp pebbles. I remember how my throat burned parched and bloody, how muddy my mouth turned, lips parting subway tracks, carving out a nest and exhaling a corner of your absence, leaving a piece of it there. I held my breath the rest of […]
Read more...I wonder if your pinpricks peak when mine do– In the almost-waking morning, when our love would come in rustling sheets, a left-arm reaching, pollen coats the top layer of a dream we were both in, a sigh into your shoulder like an exhale into Sunday, the hours we have before your train back home. […]
Read more...Sometimes, the ammonium smell of the curtains closing in comforts me in a way only chronic panic can. From a distance— peace with a hairline fracture— the hour turns from morning to too bright. My tasks are acrobats; they balance on tall shoulders, somersaulting through unchecked boxes, tightroping between tight timelines, and as I watch, […]
Read more...1 I thought, it’s a wonder how quickly those eyes can render your borders translucent under certain light– Your ecosystem of 25 years, disorder and triumph, dimpled peaks and valleyed base made opaque by a scan and then avert– a calculated refocus relocation to a smoother landscape. And suddenly, you’re an outline, minimized and blurred, […]
Read more...I can breathe in pebbles and breathe out powder, dust ground from my inner churning, excavating, grating ruminations— I’ve done it all my life. Wake before sunrise with granite under my tongue, still under covers, I feel its course coat, how these years have shaped you, taste its metals, how your bitterness works with you, […]
Read more...Between us, words drill their tummies with a needle and crochet themselves over the threads that connect our morning breath. Shallow words, but ours. Our concave sounds, bellybuttons bounce on our sleepy string, beads reading happy morning and good Monday and I dreamt my leg traced your inner thigh in your sleep, that I […]
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