You drive alone into the night, She would have said you go too fast, but life is short and burns so bright. No one understands you quite like She does – but that’s in the past. You drive alone into the night. You don’t know why you put up a fight, no good things seem […]
You ask “why” and wind up unhappy. The poor girl’s better off dead. Queer ones like her don’t happen often. We nip them in the bud early. We give people contests remembering words or names or cram them full of noncombustible data so they feel stuffed, absolutely brilliant. They’ll feel the
Living in Negative Space I. Hello, Welcome to the corner of my mind: […]
I had a dream I was wearing a green shirt— not one I own, nothing like it lives in my closet. It’s nothing special, just a green long sleeve. But the emerald made my […]
The morning I returnedto third grade afteronly two days awaywith Chicken Pox, I satdown in my chair, andZachary Dolesscootchedhis seat awayfrom me. The morning I returnedto third grade afteronly two days awaywith Chicken Pox, I satdown in my chair, andZachary Doles
my lips taste like beeswax like dollar store chapstick and the rim of a spinning bottle bees fill my mouth like ninth-grade gossip and seven minutes in the sky fuzz and wings pry my teeth and tickle my throat coaxing saliva like honey for their queen but they force me to swallow their stingers Rebek
You presented the Lord with an honest lament even in your anguish: the sweetest kind of offering, I’d like to imagine. Your daughter-in-law’s Moabite god demanded child sacrifices in order to appease his jealousy, and yet somehow you still found the courage to bring your own bitterness to the al
