Call me Ishmael, my professor read aloud and I looked over his shoulder, out the window at a young man who looked good enough to take to...

I never knew the fear of a face in full view until I met him show me an eye, nut-brown, lined with sparse lashes a nose, round- tipped...

Tomorrow is orange peels. the fibers are stuck under my...

when i was young i tasted a fire i didn't want his mouth sent gray, billowy smoke into my lungs and it's been hard to catch my breath...

i built a dam of stone to patch a leak in my brain, keeping hasty yearnings to myself, but cracks began forming as my vision blurred, he...

From Here, The Road A change is coming, I an uproar, I a whimper of willow breaking against the soft stagger of animal fur, I and, have...

Steak, rustic, the fleshy side I squeezed, spurred on by a virgin, stabilized by a verb. Flank me, copper, my hips pungent with meat...

On my 5th day of taking antidepressants I find out I have COVID. Or at least, I suspect I do. It is February 4th, 2021: I have moved out...

This is not something I measure on a rubric. Your thoughts at 18 on your mom who took drugs and the boyfriend who came back. That night ...

I was taught that the word gay meant anything but love. I was taught to use it as an insult against those who outranked me, or those who...

Searching for something misplaced in youth: a little love, a pocket of hope, the day you will die. All of the times you chose beauty over...

Sometimes it was obvious— a cardinal in the snow. Other times it would wait like a hawk among bare branches. Not quite hidden, not as...