Date: July 2022

bittersweet flavor my dad obsessed over   present at Christmas, church potlucks, and political family dinners   a bane on my childhood   in my coming of age I cut pieces out at midnight and savored what I swore I detested   older and farther away I recalled my mother in the kitchen stirring a [&

Explain to me the imagined self. Is blood thicker than water?             Maybe I am thicker still.   Paint a picture of progress and watch the colors run. Is theory all there is?            No, but yes.            Yes, maybe yes.   The […]

     Busia’s house always felt foreign to me. I was used to shag carpets, floral wallpapers, and watching Hogan’s Heroes on our white Zenith television back at home. Busia’s, on the other hand, was more like a relic from the postwar housing boom. The wallpapers were khaki-colored, spotted r

you are written in knife on the lines of my hands  and the hands of my mother    your love falls through my fingers  like loose change from torn pockets   of the coat you bought me last fall.    your rage smothers me –  it is pressed leaves   from the maggot-sick tree  you […]

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