Stubborn dandelion, yellowed brilliance unaware that it’s outstayed the world’s welcome, soaked in still morning light with a pair of...

my eyes lock with my eyes two black holes, duplicated suspended in space and time.   i blink — and the self-portrait shifts late sun...

Three months. Fourteen days. One hour. Nineteen minutes. That’s how long it’s been since you broke up with me. I remember precisely...

i.   we were probably eight when you waved back    as i looked up from my new apartment balcony.      we looked for shells and jumped...

I bowed to the ground, picked up nine four-leaf clovers - six five-leaf clovers too. Their petals sliced by mower blades speckled by...

and i love him even more now my half-mad boy in his skeleton best   black and red, canary and camo he pulls that heart out of his chest...

At sixteen, on a sunny summer day, you lay in bed, daydreaming about your future. The image of a shiny linoleum floor with a woman...

To see my parent would be to know they were working class. My father’s dungarees were so soiled my mother was unable to rid them of...

We are on a train from Tokyo to Kurama Onsen  near Kyoto. You write on the back of purple and gold  origami paper, scenery passes us by...

She misses the light that hid its existence cream and pale under the watchful eye of the waning moon that used to dance in spirals and...

Every time I think of you, I think of the show Degrassi too. In 2009, we are fourteen, and Degrassi: The Next Generation is on its...

Shut away from the magic of music, she can no longer hear the rising hymns she sang with Dean and a guitar, behind a pulpit of judgement....