For Christmas, every woman in my family got a rape whistle, except me. My niece walked outside, closed the front door to see if we could...

she wants to stop me I beg her but she's adamant she's the stone of flesh at my lips, the quarry where crushing fingers to my teeth...

Lying in my bed, I listened to trains on tracks—their horns blowing at comforting intervals. Rhythm of the cicadas’ persistent call and...

“alexa, start my day?” new normal, life on venus, red sky, burning, protestors. new city, extra locks, blazing pistol under the bed,...

My horoscope tells me that I may be the cause of my own sadness, as if I could change the way the Moon pulls and pushes water from the...

In a New England type of fog with $2.50 coffee staining tongue and breath and the Sound of archangels of learning from on high Like so...

These words are the origami of my mouth; with my tongue I fold them, crease them, turn them around, and then, parting my lips, I reveal a...

There is peace in distance. I discover why mountain climbers are so impatient to be vertical. That's why clouds are so chill all the...

Crushed by your mother’s young death, I lived beneath grief, paralyzed for months. My eyes were bloodshot from reading manuscripts and...

An angel sounds less angelic at 6AM on a Sunday, to my surprise, he takes her and I’m grateful he got the hint today my body gets to stay...

My cursive twists slow under the overhead light, under the line, describe your mental health emergency: I write the sentence, my brother...

I now have a voice, your all listening to me now, you took me to my extreme, my darkest hour. You bow your heads, in shame, and deny your...