I take a melon baller to my heart and             scrape out bits of you,            all rotted-under and     sickish sweet and warm....

I spread my hair across the ocean of your skin and cast it out upon the wide open bed. A net of brown fibres and knotted curls. The...

She warmed chicken soup all day— ready for the hungry, the empty She popped popcorn on movie days for seniors saying, I’m more able than...

And I’m left to wonder if your betrayal was the desperation of a starved dog or a practiced knife slipping between my shoulder blades; is...

Jason had been waiting for Allison at Caffé Bene for almost thirty minutes when he saw her walk-in. She had texted earlier to let him...

The routine starts on Sunday with a tiny flake of skin, barely detectable, separating itself from the sturdier flesh just underneath the...

Emmy stands in front of the bathroom mirror of her parent’s house, a white hair pinched between the fingers of her right hand. It is wiry...

"The placenta is the least understood human organ and arguably one of the more important, not only for the health of a woman and her...

1.     I feel it in the calcified spaces between my ankles and my ribs, underneath the porcelain of my cheeks. Can you tell me what...

I look up and see a crow, a shiny and scrawny thing, swaying from the powerline above us. It tips its weight forward as if to nosedive...

Growing up I craved community. I was social and tried to fit in with my peer groups. At summer camp, I found short-term connections with...

My palm screams as I bash my right hand against the steering wheel, over and over. Heavy bass hammers through my car, rattling the empty...