Your finger prints faintly adorn my neck in grey-green and lavender like jewels. A “choker.” I snicker to myself for coming up with that all on my own. I bend over to wash the makeup off my face. Coconut

I have to forget about all of them I have to push them faaaaaar back in my mind and eventually they’ll fade away and become like an old photograph with blurry faces except for a dark spot lingering where

Plants split marble as they erupt from the floor. A crack crawls and rumbles in between my feet where I stand in the middle of the atrium. My gasp and laugh bounces off the walls and out to the courtyard.

I am just one amongst hundreds of bees slow crawling in glass cases in the basement of your mind. you’ve taken a special interest in me I can tell. I don’t particularly want to be there but I long to be

I’d prefer to look at you through a spy glass while I rest on a mile high diving board. When we make eye contact I feel myself plummeting towards stormy seas. The waves would surely drag me under

It’s all so fucking vague sometimes I think I’m a liar. It’s like mistaking cayenne pepper for cinnamon in my oatmeal. Or like hearing La Llorona instead of coyotes when a sorrowful moan echos throughout

Gates release hundreds of sheep running into open grass. With one eye down the rib of a shot gun a farmer takes aim and fires. again and again sheep fall before they make it into the woods. a pair of ravens

I open my eyes to the blurry blue light in your room. I hear the door creak and your dark figure looms in the doorway. I vividly imagine stuffing myself in your fish tank and tapping on the glass to get

Your dog is in the backyard digging a hole in the garden. It’s yellow eyes aren’t warm like my parents dog it’s too wise. It’s trying to tell me something. I crawl on my belly using my shoulders and elbows

The street lights in Logan square move past my periphery faster and faster until they are just long orange streaks on either side of my face and suddenly we are in space and the stars are all floating

I thought She abandoned me before I even knew who She was. I swam deep deep down to the bottom of the pool where your ears start ringing and your cheekbones ache. I was waiting for you down there to join

Desire fishhooks my heart. I fantasize about returning and uncorking the sediment that’s built up in my chest over the years. I know it’s all bluff because the reality would be me sprawled on a silver

Put a flag on top of my landfill I’m gonna lay back and sink in it I won’t hold my breath as I ascend I’ll breathe and choke and sputter all the way up to the bottom Into my nose stinging taste in the

i feel myself becoming inanimate i crouch down against the wall i conjure a memory of you it does the trick like prodding a fork into the electric socket cheap thrills are rigor mortem i hate dragging

Peeled exterior as the wind picks up, what’s dead and molted flows off run and catch the the dregs if you are so inclined

Father cuts into his stake and wrinkles his nose. Before mother can take her place beside the head of the table she cooks his perceivably inedible meal again. The rest of dinner is silent. mother smiles

Their feelings were so sincere but mine dipped into a convoluted nausea. no relief no emptying. I wanted to boost egos in order to boost my own. Build up of sediment in my swamp of irresolution

Aloe

There will always be a loophole

We’re gonna be married by Elvis in a little white wedding chapel and we’re gonna drive the 85 Toyota pickup truck through the desert away from neon lights. I’ll hog the radio but you won’t mind because