kintsugi

movement flickers

under the pale sheet of SSRIs.

the sharpest parts of my fingers

dig into my palm,

excavating crescents

in bruised shades of purple.

i hold a galaxy in my hand.

the elixir glazes my gut

in nauseating swirls.

my chained beast squirms

wh...

I was raised in the light of mountain   hulk of

a confident outline   brazen   vibrational

luster a conglomerate presence of   pine   stone

lion   deer     &   bear’s

amorous desiring o...

Fable 

A father pins his son against a wall

and wraps his hand around that little throat

to squeeze it only once, as if to say

I cannot take this wildness of your wings.

An hour afterwards, he wipes a cloth

across the stinging eyes his boy can’t close

enoug...

Diane, remember the room divider 

we improvised so we could each have privacy? 

A twine between the two halves of the room. 

Our bunk bed taken apart—your top bunk 

brought to your side of the room and my bunk 

brought to mine. We threw a dark blanket 

ove...

Elegy     (in process)

I remember myself and my open legs. Silk lingerie
          to dance in. I remember that the grasses swayed too,
                    the olives and wheat murmuring toward the sky....

Notable Eggo Shortages

     —Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggo

1898

The hurricane that tore Galveston

Off the map is better known,

But a storm two years prior

Made mincemeat of Puerto Rico,

Swamped with twenty-eight

Days of ra...

self portrait as isaac, or i reread genesis and once again consider the idea of top surgery

abraham leads me to the mountain

& i am the one holding the blade

the rock is so thirsty, asks for every sacrifice

halo and whetstone are listed as synonyms in th...

(Resisting [Forgetting) Resisting] 

The Japanese character forget 忘 stacks

the character for to die 亡 atop the character

for heart 心. Die over heart.

                                                not...

Inspired By

Inspired by the elven.

Inspired by the cloven-hoofed.

Inspired by horses & hunter green.

Inspired by the micro-plastics in our DNA.

Inspired by, Earth isn’t your mother;

she’s a saga.

Inspired by don’t look at me.

Inspired by but my hands shake. 

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