the child poet grows best in muddy shallows under sunshine with storms on the horizon planted as she was in the forgotten yesterdays of a...

As I sat nervously waiting in a trendy Greek restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, an older man walked quickly toward me and sat down in the...

They sloshed around the dark bathroom like large animals after tranquilizer darts. Two of the walls were cinder-block, a basement corner....

I am reminded of yesterday, when we wanted to believe our love was eternal, and time, like reality would never catch up with us. We...

It had just happened a week ago, and she was running. Eleanor Grisby, her face etched with the lines of sixty years, sharp eyes looking...

“The crabs cut ‘em… or plastic!” I nod understandingly, “Everything that comes to net… ‘s not all fish!” he adds. Delivering at first...

Rusted train tracks chug beneath our mud-crusted combat boots imprisoning browned socks and bruised, blistered feet patiently awaiting...

lost in a corner of the yard I grow close to what you could have been a mountain discarded tires, splintered lumber, chicken wire, a...

I am at my ugliest when I run, red with exertion and dripping with sweat. I have pulsing veins that appear on my forehead and sometimes,...

When people ask how I’ve been Somehow I know That it’s not okay For me to tell them That my eyes seem to have Started leaking Frustration...

I haven't seen you in-person for the past four months. It's been approximately 121 days since I counted the steps like sacred breaths it...

My thighs covered in Raspberry jam slip from bed towards the pantry My cervix gifts me A pimple the size of a Peregrine falcon You don't...