Little Fish Drunk Girl holds my hair back, pets my head, says Good, good, get it out. Hands me wadded toilet paper, tells me to wipe my mouth, to blow, and takes the soiled tissue from my hands, tender as communion. Drops it in the bowl. Drunk Girl, still stroking my hair. It’s ok, you’re […]
Un-scientific report on the possible side-effects of ADHD medication for people searching ‘will stimulants make me a different person’ on Reddit I stopped thwacking tree stumpswith axe-handles. Gravity got a little better.Closer to Mars, maybe. My laundry laundered, my hair got softer. I couldn’t make sandwicheshalf the time still, but I’d sit on the kitchen […]
TRANSFORMATION upon rewatch of sex & the cityrealize ur my mr bigfailing to heedthis dispatch from africa“ a lot of giraffes, i saw abt 10 giraffes ”the birds at the monasteryhave diff-colored eyestake ur pick—they’re all for usugar on a grapefruitpink salt on a rimthe american westzen when u count ur green“ loose-fitting hospital gown […]
Didn’t I? Before they put Missy to sleep because the woodchuck was rabid //before she held it under water with her long snout and breathedthrough the sides of her mouth // before she snatched it by the scruffand trotted to the pond with it dangling from her mouth // beforeall the snarling and growling as […]
self-portrait as a boy scout uniform official tan uniform topmade of 100% supplex nylonthat does not taper at the waist blue neckerchief with red and white edgesheld together by a silver, three-hole slidethat fits far looser than it used to straight cut olive green uniform pantswith no room for hips any wider than a boy’s(they […]
Tidal Ah, hope—featheredlike dinosaurs,now extinct. To think,some may have been rainbow-hued,others iridescent blue. The wave we wanted never reached the shore—just wave after wave of lies.I pick up a stone, ah, a fossil—nothing rare like a wishbone that aides birds with flightbut a shell embedded in sediment rock. I skid it across the thin skin […]
Girlchild, I bought the pots and pans on my ownwith no one at the register. At home with no one to registerI was alone, the groceries spoiled. I was alone as the groceries spoiled,greened and moldered. My mother called once. Once, I heard her maiden name called,strange, and furtive like another life, pressing between another […]
Seeing Clearly Eloise sat cross legged on her single, unmade bed, illuminated by the soft fairy lights strung haphazardly around the walls. A peace lily, elevated by a stack of dog-eared books, drooped forlornly in a corner. Her housemate, Cayla, was perched behind her, curler in hand. Thanks to Cayla’s ministrations, Eloise’s usually flat locks […]
piggy After we got married, my wife began to eat my hair. I thought it was an eating disorder, but she told me that trichophagia involves eating your own hair and not someone else’s. She said she just couldn’t help herself; apparently, I tasted like chocolate cake. I plucked a hair and tried it myself, […]
The Deer Stand: A Prose Pantoum 1. When November comes, I join my lover in the deer stand, his mittened hand gripping mine from the moment we enter the woods ’til we reach the east ridge, just over an hour before dusk. There, something primal yawns open inside me. From our pockets we unpack cheese […]
